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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2013

Juan Antonio Moriano León ,
Gabriela Topa Cantisano  and
Jean-Pierre Lévy Mangin
Juan Antonio Moriano León*
Affiliation:
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Spain)
Gabriela Topa Cantisano
Affiliation:
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Spain)
Jean-Pierre Lévy Mangin
Affiliation:
Université du Québec (Canada)
*
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Juan Antonio Moriano León, Dpto. de Psicología Social y de las Organizaciones, Facultad de Psicología, UNED.C/ Juan del Rosal 10 (Ciudad Universitaria). Madrid, 28040 (Spain). Phone: +34-913988251; E-mail: jamoriano@psi.uned.es
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Abstract

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.

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.

Keywords

leadershipsocial identityprototypicalityextra efforteffectivenessliderazgoidentidad socialprototipicidadesfuerzo extraeficacia
Type
Research Article
Information
The Spanish Journal of Psychology , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , November 2009 , pp. 667 - 676
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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