MLQ (Chestionarul Multifactorial de Leadership). Date preliminare pentru Romania

The Multifactorial Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ), in its latest version (5X), is a complex instrument, created in order to offer (1) a valid measurement of the transformational, transactional and passive components of leadership and also (2) as accurate a profile as possible for a person’s leadership potential and leadership-related behavior. The MLQ has been often used in laboratory and field researches, being an adequate, very useful tool for selection, transfer, promotion, development and counseling of individuals, groups or organizations. Various forms of the MLQ have been used in more than 30 countries, in industrial organizations, hospitals, religious institutions, military organizations, governmental agencies, universities, primary and secondary schools. It has been demonstrated that the efficiency of the MLQ remains constant, no matter if the leader is evaluated by his direct superiors, subordinates, co-workers or customers. An outstanding advantage of the MLQ is thus the possibility of 360° usage (with parallel forms of for selfevaluation and peer-evaluation). The adaptation of the MLQ started in Romania in 2005. This paper presents a pilot study on the self-evaluation form of the MLQ. A pilot sample of 229 participants was used, comprising mediumlevel and top managers, recruited from different corporations in Bucharest. Primary statistics, reliability, interscale correlations and the factor analysis of the MLQ are being presented and discussed, contrasted with the results reported by the original authors on USA samples. The results of these preliminary studies are encouraging, indicating that, in spite of an obvious need of extra research, the Romanian MLQ is an effective tool so far.