A Scale Development Study on Hubristic Leadership: A Multi-Faceted Perspective

Abstract

It is an undeniable fact that hubristic leaders’ or executives’ over-confidence and over-ambition together with a high level of self-conceit and God-like attitudes over others (i.e., personnel, shareholders, etc.) present a danger for organizations’ ultimate performance and future success since they take systematically strategic decisions and make crucial choices incessantly. By taking all the above into account, the main goals of this study are (1) to contribute to the enhancement of literature regarding the concept of “hubristic leadership” and (2) to develop a multidimensional scale to measure “it, which has been discussed only qualitatively so far but it has not been analyzed quantitatively yet. After having a depth analysis and a closer inspection of the definitions of the construct and the compounds of its items, it is found that the construct is multidimensional comprised of (a) individual, (b) situational, (c) relational.