标题:Response: Comments on Dannhauser and Boshoff’s “Structural Equivalence of the Barbuto and Wheeler Servant Leadership Questionnaire on North American and South African Samples”
摘要:Greenleaf (1970) described servant leadership as a philosophy of leadership that embraces a selfless, service-oriented approach to leading others. Barbuto and Wheeler (2006) clarified the construct and operationalized servant leadership with the Servant Leadership Questionnaire (SLQ). In their model, five dimensions of servant leadership were identified: altruistic calling, emotional healing, wisdom, persuasive mapping, and organizational stewardship. Dannhauser and Boshoff (2007) attempted to study servant leadership in a cross-cultural setting by translating the Servant Leadership Questionnaire (SLQ) to Afrikaans for use in South Africa. The original English version and the Afrikaans translation of the SLQ was distributed to 417 salespersons from 100 automobile dealerships in an effort to produce a viable measure for that population. Participants were given the option to complete the instrument in either English or Afrikaans. The authors did not delineate the number of subjects from the sample that completed the form in the original language versus the translated version nor was any type of cultural comparison provided.