Handbook of Management Scales/Loyalty

Loyalty

Description

It was aimed to measure Leader-Member Exchange (LMX). Therefore a multidimensional measure was developed and validated. Item analysis involving 302 working students, followed by construct and criterion-related validation using 249 employees representing two organizations resulted in a multidimensional LMX scale. The results provided support for the affect, loyalty, and contribution dimensions identified by Dienesch and Liden (1986), as well as a fourth dimension, professional respect. The following items are taken from the loyalty dimension of LMX.

Items

• My supervisor defends my work actions to a superior, even without complete knowledge of the issue in question.
• My supervisor would come to my defense if I were "attacked" by others.
• My supervisor would defend me to others in the organization if I made an honest mistake.

Source

• Liden/Maslyn (1998): Multidimensionafity of Leader-Member Exchange: An Empirical Assessment through Scale Development. Journal of Management, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 43-72.

Related Scales

• Leader-member exchange