Leadership and change: Italian validation of the Transformational and Empowering Leadership scales

In a competitive and evolving working scenario, the leadership is called to respond to the challenges related to the management of internal and external transformative processes of the organization. In order to validate the Italian version of the Global Transformational (GTL) and Empowering Leadership Behavior (ELB) scales and to test their reliability, a study involved a sample of 852 workers, mainly women (N = 553, 64.9%), with an average age of 41.1 years (SD = 10.17). The factorial structure of the Italian version of the GTL and ELB was examined through a confirmation factorial analysis (CFA) with Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The results are satisfactory for both tools in terms of factorial structure, validity, and reliability; the scores of the two scales are also positively correlated with innovative behavior, satisfaction, and organizational trust.