DR.UTKARSH ANAND,SRISHTI SHRIVASTAVA,DR. SUSHMA MURLIE
DOI: https://doi.org/The concept of leadership mindfulness is essential in organizational psychology because it aids in concentration, emotional balance, and moral decision-making. One limitation in the psychometric evaluation of mindfulness measurement tools is their evaluation in leadership and multinational contexts. This research focuses on the cross-cultural concerns of leadership mindfulness instrument validation in the context of cross-culturally diverse organizational settings. This research critically reviews and conceptually analyzes the most cited mindfulness scales, the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS), Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ), and Langer Mindfulness Scale (LMS) to investigate their construct adequacy, cultural fairness, relevance to leadership, and cross-cultural diversity. This paper seeks to fill the gaps of multinational leadership psychometrics through comparative framework analysis and interpretive psychometric critique of cross-cultural core mindfulness. A psychometric critique of the cross-cultural core mindfulness framework evaluates score pattern variation within semantic meaning and its contextual relevance. It also analyzes the variation of scores and context's meaning, emphasizing the need for recalibration within mindfulness. The critique outlines the core factors of mindfulness as: the culturally shaped leadership contextual behaviors conditioned by situational frameworks of attention, control, focus, emotional regulation, and non-reactivity. Unlike most other studies, this one is not focused on clearly defined boundaries or frameworks. It is about culturally informed methods, organizational relevance, and insight. Results show that the instruments measure the core concept of mindfulness; however, culturally specific leadership expressions, workplace relationships, and dynamics are absent.This paper's conclusion gives forward-looking implications regarding HR inflation, executive review, and further development of the assessment tools. It offers a refined form of validation that integrates multi and cross-cultural organizational systems with global leadership in the framework of psychometric theory and adds a form of nuanced psychometric validation.
