Toward a more political perspective of leader effectiveness: Leader political support construct validation
开发并验证了领导者政治支持（LPS）的测量工具，通过多阶段六样本研究证明其内容效度、内部一致性、收敛效度、区分效度和效标关联效度，表明领导者的政治行为有助于提升其有效性。
Summary Organizations long have been referred to as political arenas which leaders must navigate with skill and savvy. However, investigations of the role of leader political behavior on leader effectiveness largely have been avoided, perhaps due to historically negative connotations of organizational politics. Recently, a base of conceptual literature has begun to grow regarding the positive possibilities of organizational politics, including the potential benefits followers may reap from leaders' political support. However, empirical research testing the theoretical tenets of leader political support (LPS) is lacking. Thus, the purpose of this investigation was to advance a more political perspective of leader effectiveness by developing and validating a psychometrically sound measure of LPS. Using a multi‐phase, six‐sample approach, we provide evidence of content validity, internal consistency, convergent validity, discriminatory validity, and criterion‐related validity of our measure of LPS. These findings advance knowledge by demonstrating that leaders' political behavior contributes to their effectiveness across a number of different conceptualizations. Additionally, the validation of the construct facilitates future research on LPS that can further evaluate its importance for leaders and their followers.