Servant Leadership Characteristics- Testing The Relability of Scale in Select Government Hospital

Abstract

Purpose: The study is an attempt to test the standardization of a foreign  scale on Servant Leadership Characteristics that is ‘The Organizational  Leadership Assessment’ (OLA) (revised) evolved by James Alan Laub  (1999) in selected Hospital Organization in Panchkula (India). Design/Methodology/ Approach: Specifically, as defined by James  Alan Laub, the dimensions which are six in number that is a.) Values  People, b.) Develops People, c.) Builds Community, d.) Displays  Authenticity, e.) Provides Leadership and f.) Shares Leadership were  used to build a servant leadership scale. The questionnaire was filled  by 100 respondents from Panchkula (India). Further to test the reli ability and validity of it, Cronbach’s Alpha and Measures of Dispersion  were used.  Findings: The 6 dimensional measure of 60-items instrument main tains the Cronbach’s alpha for Servant leadership dimensions ranging  between 0.879 - 0.921 which is above the significance level of 0.60. All  the items have reliability above prescribed significance level, i.e.0.60. Practical Implication: It is anticipated that the Organizational  Leadership Assessment will function as a valuable and significant  resource for doing more study in various fields in the future.