Which item measure the authentic leadership of the entry level leaders in military appropriately?

Abstract

The research trials of high precision measurement of authentic leadership is not active, and haven’t knowledge for reliability and coverage range of authentic leadership questionnaires when want to make high stakes personnel decisions in military settings. This study presented five questionnaires to measure authentic leadership appropriately based on military leader responded survey data. They were ALQ8, ALQ12, ALQ13, ALQ14, and ALQ16. In this study presented they could be discriminate leaders who low level of authentic leadership with reliability. Further tasks may discover and consider of bi-factor solution of factor structure of authentic leadership questionnaire, and flourish discussions how to use authentic leadership questionnaire to make decisions in context of military leader resource management.

Keywords

• IRT
• appropriate measurement
• coverage
• item selection