Antecedents to Leadership: A CB-SEM and PLS-SEM Validation
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Abstract
The main issue with this paper is to investigate the link between emotional intelligence and transformational leadership and the role of organizational culture as a moderator on that relationship by using two research methods: The covariance-based structural equation modeling (CB-SEM) and partial least squares (PLS-SEM). The study examined a complex model consisting of 60 indicators including moderator effects which used real data. This will help in understanding the respective differences of the two approaches in a setup comprising model specification and parameter estimation. The dual SEM approach represents an important contribution, permitting validation of the model's robustness, and, thanks to the CB-SEM method, to overcome the limitations of PLS-SEM. The findings show that both methods yield similar results with minor differences that may be attributed to their respective estimation requirements including model fit and complexity issues. After considering these results and findings from studies done in this line, the researcher concludes that future studies need to observe recommendations made to focus on the phenomenon and research design aspects and, not mere modeling. A study limitation is not testing SEM boundaries with non-normal data and small sample size. The study is first to apply SEM approaches to verify results of a complex leadership model that included moderator affects. A key implication is the insight gained about the application of standards and guidelines for clarifying the interpretation of the SEM theories and models for leadership and management research. This implies the equal use of the CB-SEM and PLS-SEM for future studies, without undue bias.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it