CONFIRMATORY FACTOR-ANALYSIS OF THE BASES OF LEADER POWER - FIRST-ORDER FACTOR MODEL AND ITS INVARIANCE ACROSS GROUPS

Confirmatory factor analyses of data (from five samples: N = 308 accou ntants and finance professionals, N = 578 management and non-managemen t employees, and N = 588 employed management students in the U.S.; N = 728 management and non-management employees in S. Korea, N = 250 mana gement and non-management bank employees in Bangladesh) on the 29 item s of the Rahim Leader Power Inventory were performed with LISREL 7. Th e results provided support for the convergent and discriminant validit ies of the subscales measuring the five bases of leader power (coerciv e, reward, legitimate, expert, and referent), and the invariance of fa ctor pattern and factor loadings across organizational levels and the three American samples. Additional analysis indicated that leader powe r profiles differed across the three national cultures represented in the study.