Lider olma korkusu: Kavramsallaştırma, gizil ve doğrudan ölçümleme araçlarının geliştirilmesi

The present study aims to conceptualize a new construct called as fear of leadership (FOL). People with FOL have experienced worries about the possible negative consequences of leadership position. We conducted two different studies to capture this construct. The first study including employee sample (N=323) was done with the purpose of developing explicit measure of FOL while the second study including student sample (N=205) aimed at the development of implicit measure of FOL and the validation of FOL. Several constructs such as concerns over negative consequences of success (CONCOS), neuroticism, motivation to lead (MTL), cultural intelligence (CQ) and future leadership intention were included for the validation purpose. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses indicated three-dimensional FOL (i.e. fear of imbalance in work, family and personal life, fear of failure and fear of harming others). The bivariate correlation analysis revealed that FOL was positively correlated with CONCOS, neuroticism and negatively correlated with future leadership intention. However, FOL was not associated with MTL. Furthermore, the explicit and the implicit measures of FOL were not correlated. These results provided support for construct and criterion-related validities of the measure. Keywords: fear of leadership, implicit and explicit measures, concerns over negative consequences of success, motivation to lead, neuroticism, implicit association test