Leadership The Romance of Leadership Scale: Cross-cultural Testing and Refinement

Abstract The Romance of Leadership Scale (RLS) has been used in various studies in different countries and contexts. However, to date, the structure of the scale has been a subject of discussion, making it difficult to compare results over different studies. In this study, using student as well as organization samples from two Intro his/her traits. Recently, researchers have become more interested in the followers’ perspective of leadership. In this article, we are focusing on an example of follower-centred research, namely, the Romance of Leadership (e.g. Meindl et al., 1985). In this approach, leadership is regarded from a social constructivist point of view l, r-of e, er z