Leadership as social identity management: Introducing the Identity Leadership Inventory (ILI) to assess and validate a four-dimensional model

By Niklas K. Steffens, A. Haslam, Stephen D. Reicher, M. Platow, Katrien Fransen, Jie Yang, Michelle K. Ryan, Jolanda Jetten, Kim Peters, Filip Boen. 2014

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This work has been supported by a grant (FL110100199) from the Australian Research Council awarded to the second author, a grant from the Research Foundation Flanders awarded to the fifth author, and a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC no. 70962001) awarded to the sixth author.

Subfields: Communication, Gender Studies, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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The impact of identity leadership on team functioning and well-being in team sport: Is psychological safety the missing link? (2020, methodology): “Previous research with team sport athletes has found support for the validity and reliability of data derived from this measure (Fransen et al., 2016b; Steffens et al., 2014).”
Athlete leadership in sport teams: Current understanding and future directions (2016, positive): “Moreover, the study of Steffens et al. (2014) included 421 athletes of four different team sports who filled out the ILI in order to assess the identity-based leadership of their team captain.”
Social norms, social identities and the COVID‐19 pandemic: Theory and recommendations (2021, background): “Leaders are often given leeway to push the group in new directions (e.g., Abrams et al., 2013; Hollander, 1958), particularly if followers perceive that any change is in the best interests of the group (i.e., that leaders are ‘doing it for us’; Steffens et al., 2014).”
Workplace team resilience: A systematic review and conceptual development (2020, result): “Some support for the identity-enhancing impact of transformational leadership behavior has been provided in the previous research (Steffens et al., 2014; Wang & Howell, 2012).”
Leadership and followership identity processes: A multilevel review ☆ (2017, methodology): “Recently, Steffens et al. (2014b) developed the 14- item Identity Leadership Inventory (ILI) based on social identity theory.”
Doing Social Identity Leadership: Exploring the Efficacy of an Identity Leadership Intervention on Perceived Leadership and Mobilization in Elite Disability Soccer (2019, methodology): “The Identity Leadership Inventory–Short Form has been validated across cultures and has shown to have good reliability and validity (Steffens et al., 2014).”
How leader role identity influences the process of leader emergence: A social network analysis (2018, background): “functioning than individuals with weaker leader role identities (Day & Harrison, 2007; DeRue, Nahrgang, Wellman, & Humphrey, 2011; Steffens et al., 2014).”
Advancing the social identity theory of leadership: A meta-analytic review of leader group prototypicality (2020, background): “They also include leadership and social influence (Ellemers et al., 2004; Haslam et al., 2011; Hogg & van Knippenberg, 2003; Reicher et al., 2005; Steffens et al., 2014; Turner, 1991; van Knippenberg et al., 2004).”