Wise Leadership Questionnaire
Wise Leadership Questionnaire
Wise Leadership Questionnaire [WLQ]
Expecting and requiring leaders to be wise may only be effective if an adequate scale to measure the characteristics of wise leadership is provided.
Research and investigations are needed to allow organizations to identify and develop wise leaders.[1].
To this end, the Wise Leadership Questionnaire [WLQ] was developed by Abderrahman Hassi and Giovanna Storti to assess the wisdom in the leadership style of managers and leaders[2].
Definition
‘‘Wise leaders are individuals who operate in a normatively positive way by exhibiting intellectual shrewdness, moral conduct, virtuous humility and spurring action’’[2].
Dimensions
The driving forces of this pattern of leaders’ values, cognitions and behaviors are intellectual shrewdness, spurring action, moral conduct, and virtuous humility[3]
Intellectual shrewdness
refers to knowing, understanding and judging in the face of regular as well as uncertain circumstances. It is about sensing situations beyond data and facts, anticipating issues and challenges, and exhibiting sound judgement. Wise leaders have the required intellectual skills to execute the intended plan by deciding on the right action at the right time as circumstances warrant.[2]
Spurring action
is concerned with leadership behavior that inspires and rallies followers around an intended vision by sharing knowledge, guiding people towards the action needed to attain set outcomes and motivating them to act in the right direction. Wise leaders have the ability to convince subordinates of the worth of their vision by, among other things, voluntarily sharing knowledge with them and building sound relationships. Wise leaders raise followers to higher levels and expand their capacities.[2]
Moral conduct
describes the guiding role of morals, values and principles in the manner wise leaders act and lead in a consistent, sincere, and moral way. Wise leaders promote common goods not just their own good, balance their own interests with others' interests, link their behaviors with their words, consider the moral aspect of everything they do, and live up to their principles.[2]
Virtuous humility
involves enormous humility on the part of wise leaders who commit to continuous learning, regularly question what they know, admit that they do not know everything and willingly learn from others, including their own subordinates. They acknowledge errors they make and learn from their mistakes.[2]
Relationship to other leadership approaches
The wise leadership style can contribute to advancing leadership research and practice. In fact, it differs from extant leadership styles as it expands the scope of their conceptualizations owing to its core aspects: judging, action, morality and humility. Wise leadership offers insights that have not yet been covered by extant leadership approaches such as anticipating what will happen, the willingness to learn from everyone, acknowledging mistakes, balancing one’s own interests with other people's interests and acting in the right way and at the right moment, while considering the particularities of the circumstances. Primarily, situational appreciation and judgment, central mechanisms of wise leadership[4], allow leaders to adjust to various organizational and environmental contexts, rather than imposing a given style of leadership.
Measurement
The WLQ was designed to assess the wisdom in the leadership style of managers and leaders. The WLQ contains 16 items equally grouped into the four dimensions of wise leadership. The WLQ takes an average of 7 minutes to complete and can be used for both leadership development and research.
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References
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- ↑ McKenna, Bernard; Rooney, David (2019). Wise Leadership (The Cambridge Handbook of Wisdom ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 649-675. ISBN 9781108568272. Search this book on
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Hassi, Abderrahman; Storti, Giovanna (2023). "Wise Leadership: Construction and Validation of a Scale". Modern Management Review. 28 (1): 47-69. doi:10.7862/rz.2023.mmr.03.
- ↑ Hassi, Abderrahman; Storti, Giovanna (2019). "Wisdom-based Leadership: Towards the Development of a New Scale". Academy of Management Global Proceedings. Slovenia, No. 2019.
- ↑ Nonaka, Ikujiro; Takeuchi, Hirotaka (2011). "The Wise Leader". Harvard Business Review. 89 (5): 58-67. PMID 21548419.
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