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Police Officer Transformational Leadership: Development and Validation of a Self-reported Scale

Received: 3 January 2019     Accepted: 25 January 2019     Published: 20 February 2019
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Abstract

The aim of this study is to develop and test the factorial validity of a questionnaire about police officer’s transformational leadership on the ground. Based on Bass’s (1985) transactional/transformational leadership model, Police Officers Transformational Leadership Scale is composed of 33 items rated on a Likert-type scale from (1) Completely disagree to (6) Completely agree. Respondents were 167 police officers from a large French Canadian police organization and two small police corps. The results show that a model structure with two second-order dimensions (transactional and transformational leadership), consistent with Bass’s theory (1985), provided a good fit to the data. The results suggest that this questionnaire is well suited for describing the transformational leadership of police officers.

Published in American Journal of Applied Psychology (Volume 7, Issue 6)
DOI 10.11648/j.ajap.20180706.11
Page(s) 67-72
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Keywords

Police Officer, Transformational Leadership, Self-reported Scale

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  • Business School, University of Québec in Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Canada

  • Department of Administrative Sciences, University of Québec in Rimouski, Rimouski, Canada

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