Researchers in organizational behavior posit that supervisors can influence subordinates' affective and behavioral responses. Certain individual, task, and organizational characteristics, however, may serve to substitute for, neutralize, or supplement a manager's influence on employees' job responses: these characteristics are referred to as “substitutes for leadership.” This paper summarizes the results of an empirical analysis of the psychometric properties of an instrument designed to measure leadership substitutes.
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