Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations of Nicaragua and El Salvador: a Study from the Social Identity Theory

• Juan Antonio Moriano León ^[1] ; Gabriela Topa Cantisano ^[1] ; Jean Pierre Lévy ^[2]
  1. [1] Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

     Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

     Madrid, España

     
  2. [2] University of Quebec

     University of Quebec

     Canadá

     
• Localización: The Spanish Journal of Psychology, ISSN 1138-7416, Vol. 12, Nº. 2, 2009, págs. 667-676
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1017/s1138741600002031
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  • español

    El presente estudio toma como referencia el Modelo de la Identidad Social del Liderazgo (SIMOL) de van Knippenberg y Hogg (2003), con el objetivo de contrastar empíricamente el efecto mediador de la prototipicidad del líder entre la identificación con el grupo de trabajo, y la eficacia percibida del líder y el esfuerzo extra de los miembros del grupo. La muestra está formada por 109 personas que trabajaban en 22 grupos diferentes pertenecientes a Organizaciones No Lucrativas (ONL) de Nicaragua y El Salvador. El análisis de los datos se realizó mediante el Modelado de Ecuaciones Estructurales (SEM). Los resultados revelan que la pertenencia a ONL de Nicaragua y El Salvador promueve altos niveles de identificación grupal, y, asimismo, se confirma que la prototipicidad del líder tiene un significativo efecto mediador entre la identificación grupal, y la eficacia percibida del líder y el esfuerzo extra de los miembros del grupo.

  • English

    This study follows the social identity model of leadership proposed by van Knippenberg and Hogg (2003), in order to examine empirically the mediator effect of leadership prototypicality between social identity, extra effort, and perceived effectiveness of group members. The sample consisted of 109 participants who worked in 22 different workteams of non-profit organizations (NPO) from Nicaragua and El Salvador. The data analysis was performed through structural equation modeling (SEM). The results show that NPO membership is related to a high level of social identity. In addition, the results confirmed that leadership prototypicality has a significant and positive mediator effect in the relationship between the group identification and the group members' extra effort and the perceived effectiveness of leadership.

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