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  • Leadership Studies
  • Social Psychology

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  • Fiedler's Contingency Model is a prominent theory in leadership effectiveness.
  • The Least Preferred Co-worker (LPC) scale is a key instrument in assessing leadership style within this model.
  • Social desirability response bias can potentially influence self-report measures in psychological research.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of social desirability response bias on the Least Preferred Co-worker (LPC) scale.
  • To determine if social desirability influences scores on measures used in Fiedler's Contingency Model.
  • To examine the robustness of the LPC scale against social desirability manipulation.

Main Methods:

  • Study 1: 89 managers completed the Crowne-Marlowe social desirability scale and Fiedler's Contingency Model scales (including LPC).
  • Study 2: 16 supervisors were randomly assigned to a 'considerate' instruction condition or a control condition.
  • Both studies utilized the Crowne-Marlowe scale for measuring social desirability and assessed LPC scale scores.

Main Results:

  • In Study 1, no significant correlations were found between social desirability and the LPC scale or other Contingency Model measures.
  • In Study 2, the 'considerate' instruction manipulation was successful (as per the Crowne-Marlowe scale).
  • However, Study 2 also found no significant differences in the Contingency Model measures, including LPC, between the experimental conditions.

Conclusions:

  • The Least Preferred Co-worker (LPC) scale appears robust against social desirability response bias in the context of Fiedler's Contingency Model.
  • Findings suggest that social desirability does not systematically inflate or deflate LPC scores in these leadership assessment scenarios.
  • The LPC scale's validity in measuring leadership style within Fiedler's model is not compromised by social desirability concerns under the tested conditions.