CHARISMATIC LEADERSHIP IN ORGANIZATIONS - PERCEIVED BEHAVIORAL-ATTRIBUTES AND THEIR MEASUREMENT

Recent interest in the charismatic leadership role of managers in orga nizations calls for the identification and measurement of perceived be havior characteristics of such leadership. This article reports on the development of a questionnaire measure of the perceived behavioral di mensions of charismatic leadership proposed by the Conger and Kanungo (1987, 1988) model. Data were collected from 488 managers belonging to four organizations located in the U.S.A. and Canada. Analysis of the results revealed sound psychometric properties of the measure with ade quate reliability, convergent and discriminant validity coefficients, and a stable factor structure. Implications of the measure for future research and practice are discussed.