FET Attitude to Leadership

The Leadership Ability Test makes a transparent self-evaluation of one's own leadership behavior possible. This questionnaire is often regarded as indispensable aid for the new filling of leadership functions.

Application
The Attitude to Leadership test has been developed as an instrument for determining a person’s ability to assume leadership responsibility.
The Attitude to Leadership test allows the selection and targeted development of executives.
The test, however, may also serve as an orientation guide to those who are considering striving for a senior position – in order to better realize their own development needs.

Theoretical background
The conception of this test is based on the idea that management success (also) depends on certain personal attitudes. There seem to be a number of structural features that are common to all leadership situations, and that require certain personal attitudes.
Attitudes are complex structures, which are influenced by cognitive and affective components as well as the form of organization in an institution, its internal rules and regulations, and the influence of personal learning and life experience. 
Last but not least, the concept of attitude has been chosen for describing personalities because the answers to the questions of the test unveil (the) attitudes of the respective person.

Administration
After an instruction phase, questions are presented consecutively on a screen. The subject answers with ‘correct’ or ‘incorrect,’ and is allowed to make one correction and to skip items. All items that are not answered are again presented at the end of the test, the subject, however, does not have to answer.

Test forms
One test form with 138 items is available.

Scoring
The raw scores of all scales and the response time for each item are recorded.
The score sheet contains a result table with raw and standard scores for all scales as well as working time, and, if required, a test profile and an item analysis protocol of the subject’s entries.

Reliability
The consistency coefficients (Cronbach's alpha) of the test’s 10 scales are above 0.70.

Validity
Highly significant correlations have been found between the scales of the Attitude to Leadership test and the external criteria of career success (5 criteria) and leadership behavior (5 criteria).

Norms
The norming sample consists of 100 executives (71 department heads and 29 senior department heads and directors). Five career features (gross income, salary increase, job position, and two salary criteria) that take into account a person’s education level, age, and years of work experience serve as external criteria. A second group of external criteria consists in the description and assessment of the subjects’ leadership behavior by subordinates.