Spanish Validation of the Leader Empowering Behavior Questionnaire (LEBQ)

Abstract

The concept of empowering leadership (EL) has attracted widespread academic and practical interest and different questionnaires have been developed to measure it. However, there are no instruments to measure EL in the Spanish language. This article presents the translation, adaptation, and validation of a scale to measure this construct. In addition, it analyzes the relationship between managers’ EL and employees’ job satisfaction. In turn, the study analyzes whether employees who participate in a greater number of continuous improvement (CI) programs have supervisors who favor more empowering behaviors. A total of 739 participants with various occupations from different companies that have implemented CI processes filled out the Spanish version of the Leader Empowering Behavior Questionnaire (LEBQ-sp). Two different subsamples were used to test the relationships between the LEBQ and job satisfaction and CI, by means of Pearson’s correlation coefficient and analysis of variance, making it possible to provide evidence about the validity of the Spanish LEBQ. The confirmatory factor analysis supported the original structure of the six-factor model. The factors show a high level of internal consistency, as well as sufficient convergent and discriminant validity. Moreover, the results show that the more companies invest in formal CI programs, the more important it is for their leaders to adapt their behavior by displaying more EL. The LEBQ-sp is a valid and reliable instrument for use in research and a useful tool for applied purposes in the context of Spanish-speaking countries.

Empowerment and Employee Well-Being: A Mediation Analysis Study

“…However, the feeling of control at work is only one of the aspects of empowerment, which is a broader concept [76]. In relation to the study of empowerment in organizations, two complementary general approaches have mostly been used, structural empowerment and psychological empowerment [59,[77][78][79]. The former conceives of empowerment as a set of structures, policies, and practices designed to decentralize power and authority throughout the organization (structural empowerment, hereinafter SE).…”

Avances de los investigadores españoles de Dirección de Operaciones en el año 2019: el caso de los miembros de ACEDEDOT

“…Así, había estudios enfocados a sectores tales como el académico (Iqbal et al, 2019;, la sanidad (Marimon, Gil-Doménech, et al, 2019), el desarrollo de tecnologías (Moral Ventosinos & Giménez Fernández, 2019), la defensa (Sanchez-Ruiz et al, 2019) e, incluso, los clubes deportivos . Por último, un tercer grupo de artículos estarían basados en datos multisector (Arredondo & Alfaro-Tanco, 2019;Bonavia & Advances by Spanish Operations Management researchers in 2019: the case of ACEDEDOT members Lidia Sanchez-Ruiz, Elsa Diez-Busto Marin-Garcia, 2019; Braojos et al, 2019;Malbasic & Marimon, 2019;Melão et al, 2019;Roldán Bravo et al, 2019;Sanchez-Ruiz, Blanco, & Diaz, 2019;Sánchez-Ruiz et al, 2019;Tamayo-Torres et al, 2019).…”

“…En lo que respecta a las herramientas utilizadas para la captación de datos, hay un claro predominio de la encuesta, bien presencial bien online. No obstante, también se pueden identificar otros métodos, por ejemplo, el método Delphi (Arredondo & Alfaro-Tanco, 2019), las entrevistas (Bonavia & Marin-Garcia, 2019) o, simplemente, la captación de datos a partir de bases de datos existentes (Braojos et al, 2019;Melão et al, 2019).…”

Especificación del modelo de habilidades, motivación y oportunidades (AMO) como multiplicativo o aditivo y comprobación de su validez en su aplicación a las prácticas de alta implicación de recursos humanos enfocadas a la mejora continua.

“…We use an overall measure of job satisfaction, in which respondents evaluate their overall feelings about the job (Martins & Proença, 2014). Previous studies argue that the global approach could be as good as the several facets approach (Bonavia & Marin-Garcia, 2019;Giraldo-O'Meara et al, 2014;Hauff et al, 2021;Marín-García, Bonavia, et al, 2011;Scarpello & Campbell, 1983;Tett & Meyer, 1993). In this sense, the PIAAC questionary asks, "All things considered, how satisfied are you with your current job?".…”