USING THE LEADERSHIP PRACTICES INVENTORY TO MEASURE TRANSFORMATIONAL AND TRANSACTIONAL LEADERSHIP

The present study investigated whether the broader dimensions of trans formational and transactional leadership can be inferred from subordin ate reports of leadership behaviors collected using instruments not sp ecifically designed for this purpose. The leadership measurement instr ument used was the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI). Alternative s econd-order factor models were evaluated using LISREL 7, and results s uggested that subordinate assessments made using the LPI also can be u sed to measure transformational and transactional leadership. This sug gests that transformational and transactional leadership approaches ma y be thought of as underlying dimensions, with more particularistic le adership behaviors, such as those described by the five LPI dimensions , being related to them.