Engaging Leadership Scale (12 items version): Translation and validation in Greek

Background: Among other forms of leadership, engaging leadership may act positively in working environments.Aim: To translate and validate the “Engaging Leadership Scale” (12 items version) in Greek.Methods: Study population included 126 nurses in Greece. We performed our study during August 2024. We employed the forward-backward method to translate and adapt the Engaging Leadership Scale (ELS-12) in Greek language. We examined the construct validity of the ELS-12 by performing confirmatory factor analysis. We examined the concurrent validity of the ELS-12 using the “Quiet Quitting Scale” (QQS), the single item burnout measure, and the single item turnover intention measure. We examined the reliability of the ELS-12 by calculating Cronbach’s alpha.Results: The ELS-12 showed very good psychometric properties. Our confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the four-factor structure of the ELS-12; strengthening, connecting, empowering, and inspiring. Concurrent validity of the Greek version of the ELS-12 was very good. We found statistically significant correlations between the ELS-12 and QQS (r = -0.466, p-value < 0.001), single item burnout measure (r = -0.192, p-value = 0.030), and single item turnover intention measure (r = -0.296, p-value = 0.001). We found that the ELS-12 had very good reliability since Cronbach’s coefficient alpha was 0.962.Conclusions: The Greek version of the “Engaging Leadership Scale” is a reliable and valid tool to measure engaging leadership among workers.