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Questionnaire for Study on Leadership in India
Manager Questionnaire

Deepti Bhatnagar, Professor, IIM Ahmedabad

and

Dean Tjosvold, Professor, Lingnan University, Hong Kong


Thank you very much for participating in our study on leadership in India.

This survey is concerned with how leaders and individual employees work together. Please answer the questions keeping in mind one specific employee who reports directly to you. Make your judgments based on your thoughts about how that person and you work together on a day-to-day basis. There is no right or wrong answer. Kindly give your frank reply. Your responses will be kept completely confidential.
Only members of the research team will see your individual questionnaires. We do need to make sure we can match the manager questionnaire with the employee questionnaires so we have given each pair a code, which should appear on this questionnaire as well as your employee’s questionnaires.


Please circle the number from “1” to “5” that indicates how well it describes your agreement to the following statements in the questionnaire. Use the following 5-point rating system to record your answers:

1 Strongly disagree
2 Disagree
3 Neither agree nor disagree
4 Agree
5 Strongly agree
SECTION I


The following items ask you to indicate your attitudes and values
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2. The best way to avoid mistakes is to follow the instructions of the leader.
3. When employees are in dispute, they should ask the leader to decide who is right.
1. The leader is like the head of a household. Employees should obey his or her decisions on all matters.
4. Those who are respected by leader should be respected by his or her employees.
5. If the leader makes a mistake, employees can argue with him by reason.
6. If employees believe that what they think is reasonable, they should insist even if their leader disagrees.
 
 
SECTION II

Your Values

The following questions ask you to describe the values by which you want to lead.

I want to:
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17. My employees are to give me reports on the progress of their work.
45. My success is unrelated to my employee.
44. My employee and I work for our own interests.
43. My employee likes to be successful through his/her own work.
42. My employee and I each “do his own thing”.
40. I structure things in ways that favor my goals rather than my employee’s goals.
39. My goals are incompatible with my employee’s goals.
38. My employee and I have a win-lose relationship.
36. My employee and I want each other to succeed.
35. My employee and I help each other to achieve our objectives.
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37. What helps me succeed comes in the way of my employee’s success.
19. I want my employees to talk freely with me.
20. I believe it is important for me to communicate support to my employees.
21. I want to show concern for my employees’ personal concerns.
22. It is important that my employees trust me.
23. I want to recognize publicly the accomplishments of my employees.
24. I want my employees to know that I am concerned about their future promotions, pay raises, and other benefits.
25. My treating my employees fairly is very important to me.
26. My employee and I recognize that we each have knowledge and other abilities that can help us accomplish our goals.
27. We find fair ways for us to benefit from each other abilities.
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28. We use our abilities to accomplish goals.
29. My employee and I combine our abilities effectively.
30. We encourage each other to develop our abilities.
31. We appreciate each other’s abilities.
32. My employee and my goals go together.
33. When my employee and I work together, we usually have common goals.
34. My employee shows as much concern for what he/she wants to accomplish as to what I want to accomplish.
18. I want to give my employees specific instructions for how to achieve their goals.
7. Encourage employees to be “team players”.
8. Show respect for my employees’ feelings.
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9. Lead by “doing” rather than simply by “telling”.
11. Insist on only the best performance.
10. Have ideas that force employees to rethink some of their own ideas.
12. Always seek new opportunities for the unit/department/organization.
16. I want employees to work at their maximum capacity.
15. To me it is important that employees know the deadlines I have set for their work.
14. I want to make sure my employees know my instructions and orders.
13. To me it is important that my employees follow regulations.
41. I give high priority to things I want to accomplish, and low priority to things my employee wants to accomplish. (I care about mine, but not my Employee’s accomplishment.).
 
 
SECTION III

Your Values

The following items ask you to indicate how you see yourself and your employees discussing issues together. Please answer with reference to the time when you were the boss/team leader of the team member whom you have contacted for participation in this study.
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46. My employee and I express our own views directly to each other.
47. My employee and I try to understand each other's concerns.
48. My employee and I try to use each other’s ideas.
49. Even when we disagree, my employee and I communicate respect for each other.
50. My employee and I work for decisions we all accept.
51. I usually let my subordinate know where he or she stands with me.
52. I think that I understand my subordinate’s problems and needs.
53. I think that I recognize my subordinate’s potential.
54. Regardless of how much power I have built into my position, I would be personally inclined to use my power to help my subordinate solve problems in his/her work.
55. I would be willing to “bail out” my subordinate, even at my own expense, if he or she really needed it.
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56. I have enough confidence in my subordinate that I would defend and justify his or her decisions if he or she were not present to do so.
57. My employee always completes the duties specified in his/her job description.
58. My employee fulfills all responsibilities required by his/her job.
59. My employee often fails to perform essential duties.
60. My employee never neglects aspects of the job that he/she is obligated to perform.
61. My employee meets all the formal performance requirements of the job.
62. My employee is eager to tell outsiders good news about the company and clarify their misunderstandings.
63. My employee is willing to stand up to protect the reputation of the company.
64. My employee makes constructive suggestions that can improve the operation of the company.
65. My employee actively attends company meetings.
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66. My employee is willing to assist new colleagues to adjust to work environment.
67. My employee is willing to help colleagues solve work-related problems.
68. My employee is willing to cover work assignments for colleagues when needed.
69. My employee is willing to coordinate and communicate with colleagues.
70. My employee often arrives early and starts to work immediately.
71. My employee takes one’s job seriously and rarely makes mistakes.
72. My employee complies with company rules and procedures even when nobody watches and no evidence can be traced.
73. My employee does not mind to take on new or challenging assignments.
74. My employee is willing to use personal time and financial resources to partake in various training programs.
75. My employee tries hard to self-study to increase the quality of work outputs.
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76. My employee often speaks ill of the supervisor or colleagues behind their back.
77. My employee uses illicit tactics to seek personal influence and gain with harmful effect on interpersonal harmony in the organization.
78. My employee uses position power to pursue selfish personal gain.
79. My employee takes credits, avoids blames, and fights fiercely for personal gain.
80. My employee conducts personal businesses on company time (e.g., trading stocks, shopping, sending personal emails).
81. My employee uses company resources to do personal business (e.g., company phones, copy machines, computers, and cars).
82. My employee views sick leave as an entitlement and makes excuse for taking sick leave.
83. My employee lowers his/her work effort near the end of the day.
 
 
SECTION IV

Your Values

The following items ask you to indicate how successful and effective this employee is. Please answer with reference to the time when you were the boss/team leader of the team member whom you have contacted for participation in this study.
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84. Using skills he/she already possess, my employees learn new ways to apply those skills to develop new products that can help attract and serve new markets.
85. My employee seeks out information about new markets, products, and technologies from sources outside the organization.
86. My employee develops skills that can improve his/her ability to serve existing business needs.
87. My employee identifies and develops skills that can help attract and serve new business needs.
88. My employee works on familiar products and techniques to develop new and unusual solutions to familiar, routine problems.
89. My employee seeks out information on products and techniques that are new to the operation and learns how to apply them to develop new solutions to routine problems.
90. My employee seeks out and acquires information that may be useful in developing multiple solutions to problems.
91. My employee seeks out and acquires knowledge that may be useful in satisfying needs unforeseen by the client.
92. My employee has a high work performance.
93. Most of my employee’s tasks are accomplished quickly and efficiently.
94. My employee always sets a high standard of task accomplishment.
95. My employee always achieves a high standard of task accomplishment.
96. My employee almost always beats his/her targets.
 
 
Personal Information


We also need information to indicate in our research reports the characteristics of the people who have completed this questionnaire. Please kindly provide the following about yourself and your company. This information will of course will also be held confidential.
Please select your name
 
 
 
Gender
 
Female
 
Male
 
 
 
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Size of your organization: (Small= 1,Medium= 2, Large= 3, Very Large= 4)
Your education (Below high school = 1, High school graduate = 2, University graduate = 3, Postgraduate = 4)
Nature of ownership of your organisation (State-owned = 1, Joint-venture = 2, Privately owned = 3, Others = 4)
Your position (Supervisor = 1, Middle manager = 2, Senior manager = 3, Top Manager)
 
 
 
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How long have you worked for this organisation? (0 to 6 months = 1, 6 months to 1 year = 2, 1 to 2 years = 3, 3 to 4 years = 4, 4 to 5 years = 5, More than 5 years = 6)
How long have you worked in your current position? (0 to 6 months = 1, 6 months to 1 = 2, 1 year to 2 years = 3, 3 to 4 years = 4, 4 to 5 years = 5, More than 5 years = 6)
 
 
 
To what industry does your organisation belong?
 
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