Development Of Open Leadership Scale

The purpose of this research is to develop a likert type scale which measures open leadership levels of organizations. The study group consists of 273 participants, 176 academic and 97 administrative personnel who work in Muş Alparslan University. For the analysis of data regarding the validity and reliability of the developed scale following analyses were conducted; content validity, construct validity, t-test for the significant difference between the item mean correlations of top and bottom %27 of the group, corrected item-total correlations, Cronbach Alpha internal consistency coefficients, and split-half test correlations (Spearman Brown). And in order to establish structural validity an exploratory factor analysis has been used and to ensure the factor selection was valid a confirmatory factor analysis was used. As a result of analysis, the draft scale consisted of 23 items and the total explained variance is %61.40. The subscales of the scale are determined as three factors: the acceptance of power and continuous sharing, curiosity to promote and accountability, effective use of social networking. These subscales are found to be consistent with the literature. And according to confirmatory factor analysis, model’s fit index obtained via CFA was examined and Chi-square value (x2= 438.39, n= 273, sd=223, p=0.00) is observed to be significant. Fit index values are; RMSEA; 0.06, RMR; 0.06, GFI; 0.88, AGFI; 0.85, CFI; 0.98, IFI; 0.98, NFI; 0.97; x2/df = 1.96). These values shows that the scale is a good model. For the realibility of the scale of whose internal consistency was analyzed, Cronbach Alpha value is estimated to be .095. Finally, evidences reached for validity and reliability show that the OLS can be validly and reliably used for measuring open leadership levels among organizations.