Leadership Excellence in Corporate Communications: A Multi-Group Test of Measurement Invariance

This study aims at advancing leadership research in corporate communications by introducing a more rigorous statistical approach to test whether communication professionals of different hierarchical reporting levels, years of experience, and educational backgrounds would ascribe the same meanings to...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal:	Juan Meng
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	SAGE Publishing 2021
Materias:	History of scholarship and learning. The humanities AZ20-999 Social Sciences H
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/175c62fa36464c96a8dca249636107f8
Etiquetas:	Agregar Etiqueta Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!

id	oai:doaj.org-article:175c62fa36464c96a8dca249636107f8
record_format	dspace
spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:175c62fa36464c96a8dca249636107f82021-12-02T08:03:44ZLeadership Excellence in Corporate Communications: A Multi-Group Test of Measurement Invariance2158-244010.1177/21582440211061375https://doaj.org/article/175c62fa36464c96a8dca249636107f82021-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1177/21582440211061375https://doaj.org/toc/2158-2440This study aims at advancing leadership research in corporate communications by introducing a more rigorous statistical approach to test whether communication professionals of different hierarchical reporting levels, years of experience, and educational backgrounds would ascribe the same meanings to the construct of leadership excellence in corporate communications via survey research. By using an established measurement model of leadership excellence in corporate communications, the study uses three samples, including senior communication executives/leaders, mid-level communication professionals, and senior college students majoring in communication and/or public relations, to conduct the measurement invariance tests. By imposing constraints to different parameters in a sequence of nested models, findings indicate that the measures of leadership excellence in corporate communications can be equivalent across multiple groups. Measurement invariance was confirmed at multiple levels, including the higher-order measurement model, configural invariance, metric invariance, scalar invariance, and error invariance. This study deepens our understanding of measurement invariance when applying multi-group comparison in testing leadership excellence. Such evidence can also be used as central principles when developing corresponding leadership training and development modules by organizations in supporting multicultural and multi-group sensitivity in leadership development. Future research and practical implications are also discussed.Juan MengSAGE PublishingarticleHistory of scholarship and learning. The humanitiesAZ20-999Social SciencesHENSAGE Open, Vol 11 (2021)
institution	DOAJ
collection	DOAJ
language	EN
topic	History of scholarship and learning. The humanities AZ20-999 Social Sciences H
spellingShingle	History of scholarship and learning. The humanities AZ20-999 Social Sciences H Juan Meng Leadership Excellence in Corporate Communications: A Multi-Group Test of Measurement Invariance
description	This study aims at advancing leadership research in corporate communications by introducing a more rigorous statistical approach to test whether communication professionals of different hierarchical reporting levels, years of experience, and educational backgrounds would ascribe the same meanings to the construct of leadership excellence in corporate communications via survey research. By using an established measurement model of leadership excellence in corporate communications, the study uses three samples, including senior communication executives/leaders, mid-level communication professionals, and senior college students majoring in communication and/or public relations, to conduct the measurement invariance tests. By imposing constraints to different parameters in a sequence of nested models, findings indicate that the measures of leadership excellence in corporate communications can be equivalent across multiple groups. Measurement invariance was confirmed at multiple levels, including the higher-order measurement model, configural invariance, metric invariance, scalar invariance, and error invariance. This study deepens our understanding of measurement invariance when applying multi-group comparison in testing leadership excellence. Such evidence can also be used as central principles when developing corresponding leadership training and development modules by organizations in supporting multicultural and multi-group sensitivity in leadership development. Future research and practical implications are also discussed.
format	article
author	Juan Meng
author_facet	Juan Meng
author_sort	Juan Meng
title	Leadership Excellence in Corporate Communications: A Multi-Group Test of Measurement Invariance
title_short	Leadership Excellence in Corporate Communications: A Multi-Group Test of Measurement Invariance
title_full	Leadership Excellence in Corporate Communications: A Multi-Group Test of Measurement Invariance
title_fullStr	Leadership Excellence in Corporate Communications: A Multi-Group Test of Measurement Invariance
title_full_unstemmed	Leadership Excellence in Corporate Communications: A Multi-Group Test of Measurement Invariance
title_sort	leadership excellence in corporate communications: a multi-group test of measurement invariance
publisher	SAGE Publishing
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/175c62fa36464c96a8dca249636107f8
work_keys_str_mv	AT juanmeng leadershipexcellenceincorporatecommunicationsamultigrouptestofmeasurementinvariance
_version_	1718398646839410688

Leadership Excellence in Corporate Communications: A Multi-Group Test of Measurement Invariance

Ejemplares similares