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A Method for Capturing Context in the Assessment of Leaders: The “Too Little/Too Much” Rating Scale

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Jasmine Vergauwe ,
Robert B. Kaiser ,
Bart Wille ,
Filip De Fruyt  and
Joeri Hofmans
Jasmine Vergauwe*
Affiliation:
Department of Developmental, Personality, and Social Psychology, Ghent University
Robert B. Kaiser
Affiliation:
Kaiser Leadership Solutions
Bart Wille
Affiliation:
Department of Personnel Management, Work and Organizational Psychology, Ghent University
Filip De Fruyt
Affiliation:
Department of Personnel Management, Work and Organizational Psychology, Ghent University
Joeri Hofmans
Affiliation:
Research Group of Work and Organizational Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
*
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Jasmine Vergauwe, Department of Developmental, Personality, and Social Psychology, Ghent University, H. Dunantlaan 2, B-9000 Gent, Belgium. E-mail: Jasmine.Vergauwe@ugent.be
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In their focal article, Reynolds, McCauley, Tsacoumis, and the Jeanneret Symposium Participants (2018) stress the importance of context in leadership assessment. For instance, they argue that senior executives work in a different context compared to lower-level managers and that this should be taken into account. A simple example is that the competency of strategic thinking is critical for executive performance but much less so, if at all, for front-line supervisors. The claim that context matters in leadership and in the assessment of leaders is easy to grasp but difficult to apply in practice.

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , December 2018 , pp. 657 - 662
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2018 

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