This is the Polish adaptation of the Leadership Judgment Indicator Second edition (LJI-2).
The LJI is a situational test, enabling the assessment of “leadership judgment” skills – a competence important from the point of view of effective decision-making and team management. Leadership judgment is understood in the LJI as the ability to accurately determine the best strategy for working with a team in a given circumstances, esp. regarding the extent to which subordinates or co-workers should be involved in decision-making.
The test consists of 16 scenarios, based on real problem situations occurring in organizations; for each of them, four possible ways of acting are described, representing different managerial styles:
- Directive style,
- Consultative style,
- Consensual style,
- Delegating style.
One of the presented ways of acting is the most appropriate and leads to the best results in a given situation (according to the theory of leadership adopted in the assumptions of the test), while others are less suitable, but differ from each other in quality. The task of the examined person is to judge how appropriate each of the four described methods of action is in a given situation. Individual scores are compared with the model adopted in the theoretical assumptions of the test and with the responses of persons included in a reference group of Polish managers, representing various industries and levels of management. The results of the examinee are expressed in percentile form.
In LJI, two groups of results are distinguished:
- Scores on adequacy scales reflect the quality of leadership judgment. They reveal how effectively the examinee is able to analyze specific situations and indicate their optimal solution, according to the LJI theoretical model. The scores show the adequacy of the assessment of procedures related to specific styles without distinguishing between specific styles (in the form of an overall score).
- Scores on preference scales show to what extent the examinee uses each of the four managerial styles. They are the result of the examinee’s ability to indicate the correct answer and actual preferences for a given style, which is why they may indirectly suggest the managerial style preferred by the examinee.
Two versions of the LJI test are available:
Standard Version (LJI-2) – contains scenarios for different types of organizations and teams. Standardized on a sample of persons with managerial experience in enterprises of various profiles (administration, education, sales, services, industry / production, finance, shared service centers, medicine / pharmacy, IT, telecommunications).
Sales Version (S-LJI) – contains scenarios regarding the work of sales teams and norms developed on a sample of persons with managerial experience in sales areas.
Materials*:
- Test manual
- e-LJI (LJI-2 version) test unit
- e-LJI (S-LJI version) test unit
* The LJI test (in both the LJI-2 and S-LJI version ) can only be administered via the Epsilon computer-based testing platform.
The LJI test was developed for use mainly in an organizational context. The tool may be applied wherever it is important to develop managerial competences of employees: in development projects for current and future leaders, training in effective management and decision-making. It can also be successfully used in coaching activities that aim to build managers' awareness of the extent to which other people should be included in the decision-making processes.
Reliability
Due to the heterogeneity of the measured construct at the level of individual test items which is characteristic for situational tests, the LJI proposes a method of estimating reliability based on comparisons of the compatibility of pairs of judgments in individual scenarios. The Cronbach alpha coefficient for the general score of the Polish version of the LJI-2 using this method is .80, and in the S-LJI version it is .84, whereas the reliability coefficients of the preference scales for the four main decision styles range from .70 to .78 in the LJI-2 version and from .72 to .77 in the S-LJI version.
Validity
The theoretical validity of LJI was estimated by analyzing scale intercorrelation. LJI correlations with scores in tests measuring numerical reasoning abilities, critical thinking abilities, and personality measures were also checked. The criterion validity was estimated by analyzing the association of scores obtained in LJI with the length of professional and managerial experience and the level of position occupied in the organization.
Norms
Norms in the LJI test are designed for economically active adults aged 20–69 years. The standardization sample does not reflect the general population, but consists of persons holding managerial positions in companies throughout Poland. When selecting respondents for the standardization sample, the attempt was made to make it diverse in terms of the profile of the organization in which the managers are employed, the size of the organization and the level of the position occupied. The Standard Version (LJI-2) has been standardized on a sample of persons with managerial experience at various levels of management in enterprises of diverse profile (administration, education, sales, services, industry, manufacturing, finance, shared service centers, healthcare, pharmacy, IT, telecommunications). Efforts were made to ensure that in the standardization sample, the percentage share of people employed in various sectors reflected the proportions of individual types of enterprises in Poland according to the census bureau data. The Sales Version (S-LJI) has been standardized on a sample of persons with managerial experience in the areas of sales, marketing, customer service in companies from various sectors (FMCG, pharmacy, IT, telecommunications, industry, finance, consulting services addressed to commercial companies or sales departments). The purpose of such differentiation was to minimize the impact of the specificity of sales management or managing a sales department, characteristic of a specific industry.
The LJI test (in both the LJI-2 and S-LJI version ) can only be administered via the Epsilon computer-based testing platform.
Uprawnienia do zakupu i stosowania danego testu zależą od jego kategorii, wyznaczonej zgodnie z kategoryzacją Komisji do Spraw Testów Psychologicznych działającej z ramienia Polskiego Towarzystwa Psychologicznego.
LJI jest narzędziem kategorii B1.
B1 – testy dla psychologów; dla innych specjalistów po ukończonym ogólnym szkoleniu z psychometrii zakończonym egzaminem
Wymagane kwalifikacje:
- Ukończone studia magisterskie z psychologii – wymagane przedłożenie kopii dyplomu
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- Ukończone dowolne studia wyższe magisterskie – wymagane przedłożenie kopii dyplomu
- ORAZ posiadanie certyfikatu ukończenia szkolenia oraz zaliczenia egzaminu z psychometrii wg programu zaakceptowanego przez PTP
- ORAZ praca z ludźmi w obszarze zawodowym, który stanowi uzasadnienie dla wyboru i stosowania narzędzia.
