Estudio del liderazgo en Ecuador a partir de la validación del Cuestionario Multifactorial de Liderazgo

Abstract

The present study divided in two steps; the first stage seeks the validation of the Multifacorial Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ-6S) by Avolio & Bass (1992) adapted to the reality of Ecuador. In order to achieve the objetive, the MLQ-6S questionnaire was traslated from English into Spanich and later adapted to the medium in order to obtain results that correspond to the reality and the Ecuadorian need; for this part of the work, eight experts were asked to make suggestions to improve the level of understanding of the tool. Once the leveles of comprehension were improved, validity and reliability were established throungh exploratory and confirmatory analysis that determined the adjustment of the 21- ítems instrument to 16 questions with three factors, namely: Transformational, Transactional and Laissez-faire. The second stae of the work focused on identifying the existence of dominant leadership types in Ecuadorian society, being necessary to divide this stage into two sections that allowed to differentiate the type of leadership considering the personal characteristics and the leadership observing the characteristics of the organization, analyzes that contributed to establish a type of dominant leadership, influence and leadership effects in the national environment.