Do organizations based in Poland need identity leadership? Polish adaptation of the short and full form of identity leadership inventory
Do organizations based in Poland need identity leadership? Polish adaptation of the short and full form of identity leadership inventory

Summary/Abstract: Purpose– The study aimed to test the validity and reliability of the Polish version of the identity leadershipinventory (ILI) proposed by Steffens, Haslam, Reicher et al. (2014) and to confirm the relationship betweenidentity leadership and various job-related outcomes (i.e., trust in leaders, job satisfaction, work engagementand turnover intentions) among employees from Poland-based organizations. Identity leadership appears tobe a universal construct (van Dick, Ciampa, & Liang, 2018) but no one has studied it in Poland so far.Design/methodology/approach– The sample consisted of 1078 employees collected in two independentsubsamples from different organizations located in Northern and Central Poland. We evaluated the ILI’sfactorial structure using confirmatory factor analysis.Findings– The results confirm that the 15-item Polish version of the ILI has a four-dimensional structurewith factors representing prototypicality, advancement, entrepreneurship and impresarioship. It showedsatisfactory reliability. The identity leadership inventory-short form (four items) also showed a good fit withthe data. As expected, the relationships between identity leadership and important work-related outcomes(general level of job satisfaction, work engagement, trust toward the leader and turnover intentions) were alsosignificant.Originality/value– Despite the cultural specifics of Polish organizations, the research results were generallyvery similar to those in other countries, confirming the universality of the ILI as shown in the Global IdentityLeadership Development project (GILD, see van Dick, Ciampa, & Liang, 2018; van Dick et al., 2021).

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