Conducted by:The International Survey Team
ofGR Bud West & Associates
Virginia Beach, Virginia United States of America
Informed Consent: Most of us assume that the type and quality of leadership, as well as some other factors we experience, contribute to our commitment to organizations and to supervisors in the organizations for which we work. Through this research project, we plan to investigate how particular types of leadership relate to organizational and supervisor commitment and how some other factors influence those relationships. There are about 95 numbered items and it should take you about 20 minutes to complete the questionnaire. Participation is voluntary, but by answering or otherwise responding to these items, you imply that you willingly consent to completing the survey. We have not included any items that should cause anyone to feel uncomfortable. Additionally, we anticipate no risks or inconveniences in completing this instrument. However, if you feel threatened or hurt by responding, please do not begin or continue to complete the instrument. Additionally, your responses are completely confidential, so be as frank as possible. This is not a test -- your honest responses are the only correct answers. We do not ask who you are because we do not wish to know how you answer individually; it does not enhance the study for us to know how you answer individually; and the survey is large enough to assure your anonymity. In order to achieve the best possible study results, we also ask that you please thoughtfully answer all of the items on all pages. We appreciate you for taking the time to complete this questionnaire. We plan to publish the results of the completed studies next year. For concerns regarding the content of this questionnaire and the results of the associated studies, contact GR Bud West: bud.west@yahoo.com. For concerns regarding informed consent associated with this research project, contact Dr. Jason Baker, Chair of the IRB, Regent University, 1000 Regent University Drive, Virginia Beach, VA 23464; Phone: (757) 352-4569; E-mail: jbaker@regent.edu. Questionnaire: Throughout the survey, please define the term "organization" as the company, agency, or other organization that currently employs you and provides your primary source of work income (or the one that most recently employed you), as applicable. Also, please define "leader" or "supervisor" as one individual in a supervisory role to whom you report, either directly or through someone else. For example, this person could be your immediate supervisor, his or her supervisor, or someone else that they report to. Please just ensure that you consider only that one person throughout the survey.
Listed below is a series of statements that represent possible feelings that individuals might have about their own leaders at the companies or organizations for which they work. With a leader in mind, please indicate the extent to which the following statements accurately describe this leader.
1. Practices what he/she preaches.
2. Serves people without regard to their nationality, gender, or race
3. Sees serving as a mission of responsibility to others
4. Is genuinely interested in employees as people
5. Understands that serving others is most important
6. Is willing to make sacrifices to help others
7. Seeks to instill trust rather than fear or insecurity
9. Is driven by a sense of higher calling
10. Promotes values that transcend self-interest and material success
With respect to your own feelings about your relationship with your supervisor at the particular organization for which you are now working, please indicate the degree of your agreement or disagreement with each statement by checking one of the five alternatives below each statement.
11. Do you usually feel that you know where you stand -- do you usually know how satisfied your immediate supervisor is with what you do?
12. How well do you feel that your immediate supervisor understands your problems and needs?
13. How well do you feel that your immediate supervisor recognizes your potential?
14. Regardless of how much formal authority your immediate supervisor has built into his or her position, what are the chances that he or she would be personally inclined to use power to help you solve problems in your work?
15. Again, regardless of the amount of formal authority your immediate supervisor has, to what extent can you count on him or her to "bail you out" at his or her expense when you really need it?
16. I have enough confidence in my immediate supervisor that I would defend and justify his or her decisions if he or she were not present to do so
17. How would you characterize your working relationship with your immediate supervisor?
The following is a list of items used to describe the behavior of your supervisor. Each item describes a specific kind of behavior, but does not ask you to judge whether the behavior is desirable or undesirable. Although some items may appear similar, they express differences that are important in the description of leadership. Each item should be considered as a separate description. This is not a test of ability or consistency in making answers. Its only purpose is to make it possible for you to describe, as accurately as you can, the behavior of your supervisor.
My supervisor:
18. Lets group members know what is expected of them
19. Encourages the use of uniform procedures
20. Tries out his/her ideas in the group
21. Makes his/her attitudes clear to the group
22. Decides what shall be done and how it shall be done
23. Assigns group members to particular tasks
24. Makes sure that his/her part in the group is understood by the group members
25. Schedules the work to be done
26. Maintains definite standards of performance
27. Asks that group members follow standard rules and regulations
Below is a list of statements which may be used in describing behaviors that supervisors in work organizations can direct toward their subordinates. First carefully read each descriptive statement, thinking in terms of your supervisor. Then decide to what extent you agree that your supervisor can and might do this to you, either formally or informally. Please consider that in some of the statements your supervisor might possess both the ability (what s/he can do) and the willingness (what s/he might do) to carry out the behaviors. In other cases s/he might possess one, but not the other. Please mark the number which most closely represents how you feel.
28. Increase my pay level
30. Give me undesirable job assignments
31. Make me feel like he/she approves of me
32. Make me feel that I have commitments to meet
33. Make me feel personally accepted
34. Make me feel important
35. Give me good technical suggestions
36. Make my work difficult for me
37. Share with me his/her considerable experience and/or training
38. Make things unpleasant here
39. Make being at work distasteful
40. Influence my getting a pay raise
41. Make me feel like I should satisfy my job requirements
42. Provide me with sound job-related advice
43. Provide me with special benefits
44. Influence my getting a promotion
45. Give me the feeling I have responsibilities to fulfill
46. Provide me with needed technical knowledge
47. Make me recognize that I have tasks to accomplish
With respect to your own feelings about the organization for which you are now working, please indicate the degree of your agreement or disagreement by checking one of the five alternatives below each statement.
48. The organization strongly considers my goals and values
49. Help is available from the organization when I have a problem
50. The organization really cares about my well-being
51. The organization is willing to extend itself in order to help me perform my job to the best of my ability
52. Even if I did the best job possible, the organization would fail to notice
53. The organization cares about my general satisfaction at work
54. The organization shows very little concern for me
55. The organization cares about my opinions
56. The organization takes pride in my accomplishment at work
With respect to your own feelings about yourself, please indicate the degree of your agreement or disagreement with each statement by checking one of the five alternatives below each statement.
57. It's sometimes hard for me to go on with my work if I am not encouraged
58. I sometimes feel resentful when I don't get my way
59. On a few occasions, I have given up doing something because I thought too little of my ability
60. There have been times when I felt like rebelling against people in authority even though I knew they were right
61. No matter who I'm talking to, I'm always a good listener
62. There have been occasions when I took advantage of someone
63. I'm always willing to admit it when I make a mistake
64. I sometimes try to get even rather than forgive and forget
65. I am always courteous, even to people who are disagreeable
66. I have never been irked when people expressed ideas very different from my own
67. There have been times when I was quite jealous of the good fortune of others
68. I am sometimes irritated by people who ask favors of me
69. I have never deliberately said something that hurt someone's feelings
With respect to your feelings about and behaviors regarding the organization for which you are now working, please indicate the degree of your agreement or disagreement by checking one of the five alternatives below each statement.
70. I am willing to put in a great deal of effort beyond that normally expected in order to help this organization be successful
71. I talk up this organization to my friends as a great organization to work for
72. I would accept almost any types of job assignment in order to keep working for this organization
73. I find that my values and the organization's values are very similar
74. I am proud to tell others that I am part of this organization
75. This organization really inspires the very best in me in the way of job performance
76. I am extremely glad that I chose this organization to work for over others I was considering at the time I joined
77. I really care about the fate of this organization
78. For me, this is the best of all possible organizations for which to work
79. When someone criticizes my supervisor, it feels like a personal insult
80. When I talk about my supervisor, I usually say "we" rather than "they"
81. My supervisor's successes are my successes
82. When someone praises my supervisor, it feels like a personal compliment
83. I feel a sense of "ownership" for my supervisor
84. If the values of my supervisor were different, I would not be as attached to my supervisor
85. My attachment to my supervisor is primarily based on the similarity of my values and those represented by my supervisor
86. Since starting this job, my personal values and those of my supervisor have become more similar
87. The reason I prefer my supervisor to others is because of what he or she stands for, that is, his or her values
Now please tell us a little about yourself. (We'll only use this information to help us make sense of the analyses.)
88. Please indicate your gender
89. Please indicate your age (in years)
90. The size of the organization for which you work
96. Do you consider yourself Deaf or Hard of Hearing?
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