The re-exploring of the Chinese implicit leadership theory

In a 1st attempt to identify an implicit theory of leadership among Chinese people, the authors developed the Chinese Implicit Leadership Scale (CILS) in Study 1. In Study 2, we administered the CILS to 622 Chinese participants from 5 occupation groups, to explore the perceptions of leadership. Factor analysis yielded 4 factors of leadership: Personal Morality, Goal Efficiency, Interpersonal Competence, and Versatility. In Study3, recently we administered the CILS to 700 Chinese participants again for re-exploring the factor structure and the features of the implicit leadership in China nowadays. We also find that nowadays Chinese pays much attention to the leader’s moral quality and abilities, likes 10 year agoIUPsy