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Self-Assessment: What is your preferred managerial leadership style?
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Activity: What is your preferred managerial leadership style?

This scale consists of items written by Steven L McShane based on or adapted from items found in: Ohio State Leadership Studies and revised by Bureau of Business Research (1962), Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire (LBDQ), Form XII (Self) Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; R. M. Stodgill, (1963) Manual for the Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire, Form XII, an Experimental Revision, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

Instructions
A central role of managers is to maximize employee performance and well-being. These objectives require a variety of managerial leadership styles in different situations. This self-assessment estimates your tendency to engage in some of these managerial leadership styles.

Read these 12 statements and indicate how accurately each statement describes you most of the time. These statements refer to leadership in organizational settings. If you are currently a student, think about these statements in terms of how you lead others in project teams and other social settings. Also, remember that people engage in managerial leadership even when they do not hold formal leadership positions.

I am friendly and approachable to the people who report to me.
I motivate employees to achieve the highest performance.
I make sure that staff know what is expected of them.
I encourage staff to continuously raise the bar in the quality or speed of their work.
I do things to make work more pleasant for my staff.
I push employees to get the job done sooner and/or better.
I establish clear goals for staff to accomplish.
I try to improve the wellbeing of people who work with/for me.
I ensure that staff have guidelines to perform their work.
I look out for the personal welfare of my staff.
I encourage my team to achieve ever higher levels of performance.
I ensure that everyone is doing his/her work correctly.
 
  





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