Liderliği kaybettiğimizde, gerçekten ne kaybederiz? Liderlik kaybına ilişkin endişelerin değerlendirilmesi için bir ölçek geliştirilmesi

The succession process refers to handing over of the management control to someone else (Ali & Howorth, 2001). This process is especially critical in the context of family business due to it specific characteristics and its dynamics of the relationship among family members (Handler & Kram, 1988). We assert that leader's worries about losing the leadership status have an impact on the process. The aim of the current study was to conceptualize and operationalize the phenomenon of worries about losing leadership (WALL), in addition to developing a scale to assess the experience of worries about losing leadership role in family organizations. Two studies were conducted to validate the scale of WALL. First, four dimensions were proposed and these four dimensions confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) in the conceptualization of WALL as follows worries about losing leader's status, worries about losing identity without own business, worries about the company's future, and worries about the competency of the new generation. Second, WALL was found to be positively correlated with workaholism, intolerance of uncertainty, organizational identification and job involvement. The results will be discussed in terms of its contributions to science and practice.