Integrating leadership styles to assess positive resilient leaders: Positive leadership questionnaire

This chapter presents a new assessment tool the Positive Leadership Questionnaire (PLQ), examining a positive leadership style based on integration of transformational, authentic, servant, spiritual, and ethical leadership styles and facilitated by meditation. Thematic analysis of reflections collected from semi-structured and longitudinal interviews revealed that the integrated version of positive leadership style roots in meditation and resilience is an interspersed characteristic in it. PLQ assesses the integrated version of the positive leadership style. It is an original contribution. PLQ examines the positivity of people-managers measuring positive leadership in a wholesome manner compared to the current positive leadership style bridging the gap lying in the deficiencies of current assessment tools. The future pathway lies in studying the strength and robustness of this assessment tool to counter the research limitation of the small number of participants in this study. The application of PLQ objectifies the productive use of mind training and wellbeing programs in organizations.