Elaboration and validation of a scale to measure leadership capacity in a remote work environment (CLETR)

Abstract

The objective of this study was to develop and validate a scale to measure leadership skills in a remote work environment; the population consisted of 556 employees from ten companies in the education, textile, telecommunications, consulting and commerce sectors in the regions of Lima, Arequipa, Cusco, Puno and Tacna in Peru; the instrument initially consisted of 29 items which went through three stages: expert judgment, Cronbach’s Alpha and the KMO index (Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin) for the Exploratory Factor Analysis. After the validation process, the instrument was made up of 20 items, having as results a positive evaluation of the instrument through expert judgment; an almost perfect reliability (? = 0.96) through Cronbach’s Alpha and for the Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) the correlation matrix was obtained with high values in Bartlett’s test of sphericity (chisq = 8358. 716, p-value = 0 with df = 406; indicating that the data are adequate for the EFA) and the KMO sample sufficiency mean whose value was 0.98, indicating that the correlations between the variables and their partial correlations (29 items) were excellent. It is concluded that this new scale is reliable and valid to be applied in other studies in business contexts.