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Chetan Sinha and Minati Panda
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Present study highlighted the traces of social identity based on school
belongingness in the response obtained from secondary school teachers.
Exploration was conducted in two phases, phase 1(N=100) and Phase 2 (N=141),
where teachers were asked about the quality of ideally effective leader they
would prefer. The obtained samples of qualities were thematically transformed
into broader variable which were then factor analyzed. Under social identity
traditions, leadership is not based on individual characteristics’ but it is a group
process. Based on this theoretical assumption, the present study examined
the psychometric dimensions of leadership constructed among school teachers
and questioned whether social identity matters in the perception of leaders?
Result obtained seven dimensions (69.078% of total variance) in which four
dimensions viz., achievement orientation, conventional personality orientation,
nurturant and health orientation (together constituting 31.133% of total variance)
showing the importance of individual characteristics’ of leaders. However, other
three dimensions viz., ingroup prototypicality, entrepreneur of identity, and group
productivity together constituting 37.935% of total variance showed traces of
social identity as potent reason behind the preferences of ideally effective leader
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