Leader Empowering Behaviour Questionnaire (LEBQ)

The LEBQ constructed by Konczak, Stelly, and Trusty [22] was utilized to gauge the teachers’ perceptions of their leaders empowering behaviours. The instrument comprises of total nineteen items designed on a seven-point Likert scale i.e., 1 = Strongly Disagree; 2 = Disagree; 3 = Somewhat Disagree; 4 = Neither Agree nor Disagree; 5 = Somewhat Agree; 6 = Agree; and 7 = Strongly Agree. The instrument measures six subdomains of leadership empowering behaviours i.e., delegation of authority, self-directed decision-making, accountability for outcomes, information sharing, skills development, and coaching for innovative performance. All the subdomains of the leader empowering behaviour scale consist of three items except information sharing which has four items. The original instrument was consisted of 17 items but Bester, Stander, and Van Zyl [46] added two items on information sharing from Arnold, Arad, Rhoades, and Drasgow [24] to make it more precise. These items are: “My manager explains his or her decisions and actions to my workgroup” and “My manager shares organizational goals to my workgroup”. Konczak, Stelly, and Trusty [22] confirmed that six-factor constructs provide precise and comprehensive feedback to leadership and explain a greater percentage of the total variance. They calculated the reliability coefficients of the LEBQ as ranging between 0.82 and 0.88.