Compare And Contrast Theory Of Leadership

The personality traits of a good leader have a somewhat diverse focus. It is mainly concerned with the leader's attitude towards the team. Workers can trust faithful and sincere leader especially when they have a job to do. Fairness, equality, honesty and intelligence are some of the most important traits in any leader. Leader should be trained to rise above other people's difficulties when conveying a message. One study proposed that people compose their reflected best-self portrait through social experiences that draw on intra psychic and interpersonal resources. The trait theory of leadership is founded on the traits of numerous successful and unsuccessful leaders and is employed to forecast leadership efficiency.

In this world, there are many types of people and personalities. The personality trait in question is a leadership. From group leaders to CEOs to presidents, leaders are around us. However, what makes one a leader? Well, a leader needs to possess the characteristics of cooperation, problem solving, integrity, confident, and the list goes on. A leader also needs to live up to any mistakes and learn from them instead of pushing it off or blaming someone else. A leader needs to not take bias, but instead be fair and look at the big picture. I have many of these traits in leadership.

As a growing debate, the question at hand is whether great leaders are born with specific leadership traits, or if one can be taught certain traits over time. According to (Wikipedia.com) the approach of listing leadership qualities, often termed "trait theory of leadership", assumes certain traits or characteristics will tend to lead to effective leadership. I believe that leadership traits such as honest, competent, initiative, inspiring, hardworking, intelligent, and the ability to lead the masses, are some of the leadership traits one should possess. Within this paper, I will examine the overall concept of leadership traits, while observing the traits that were, or can be associated with successful leaders.

In the research carried out by Bass (1990), they found out that trait leadership theory believes some people are born to lead because of their personal qualities, while others are not. Trait theory also suggests that leadership is only accessible to the chosen ones and not available to all. In the past researchers focused on traits that were able to measure such as physical characteristics, aspects of personality and aptitudes. The current trait research has pointed the focus to more specific traits like stress tolerance, energy level, emotional maturity, integrity and self-confidence. Reviews of the trait research have found all of the above traits to be related to managerial effectiveness Bass (1990) and Marques (2010). When looking at the results of

One of the aspects of the personality theory is the Big Five Personality traits. Those traits are: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness. Each of these traits have been studied by many experts and defined based on the behaviors and attitudes that are attributed to most people. There are no absolutes meaning that just because most people who display a certain characteristic are effective leaders, does not mean that everybody who has that trait is an effective leader (Dziak, 2017). This paper will break down each of the Big Five traits and talk about their role in leadership.

Leadership theories that have developed over many generations through the baby boomers, generation x, generation y, and millennials suggests that leaders during each period exhibited characteristics of strong leadership based on many factors such as their hereditary, personality features including charisma, and the environmental, social and cultural conditioning, that they would have experienced during the period of time in which they were active. This paper having reviewed the more salient theories will take the position that all leaders, past and present, possess qualities attributable to various theories, whether it be trait theory, the transactional/transformational model, contingency/behavioral theories, depending on the situation or the

The eight week course in applying leadership has provided myself and many others the tools and strategies to succeed as a leader. An effective leader is a combination of many characteristics and values. After taking the Myers-Briggs personality test, I am confident that I possess the ability to lead. My personality type is ISTP which indicates that I am an introvert who is realistic, attached, adaptable and ever-changing. According to this personality test, I have the tendency to think before acting, appreciate the private time to recharge and prefer a relationship (one-on-one) communication. Furthermore, I depend on my past experiences to deal with conflicts and situations. Additionally, I am sensitive to other’s needs and tackle on circumstances as it arises (Poirer, n.d.). Thus, the traits listed are positive characteristics of an effective leader. The Myers-Briggs personality assessment is a good indication of my ability to lead. As a

The Trait Approach was the 1st systematic attempt to study leadership. In the 20th century it was known as the “great man” theory. This approach takes a look at the leaders personal attributes such as but not limited to: motivation, energy, intuition, creativity, persuasiveness and foresight. Some of the traits that are essential to this list include: intelligence, self-confidence, determination, integrity and sociability. Thus it focuses mainly on the leader and not on the followers or situations. The strengths of the Trait Approach includes: 1) it is intuitively appealing, 2) it has research to back it’s theory, 3) it highlights the leader, 4) it identifies what the traits of a leader should have and whether the traits we do

Generally, before becoming a leader, individual has many characteristics for working as an employee. It should be discussed first that what kind of characteristics is helpful to become a leader in the future. The trait theory of leadership is due to some traits, leader is different from others. It can separate into five key factors: neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. The study shows that “extraversion, openness to experience, and agreeableness were significantly correlated with leadership.” (Amy E. Colbert, 2012, P. 678) Extravert is more controlling and more willing to share ideas to contribute the group so that he is more likely to be a leader. Openness to experience means it is creativeness and different opinion and it usually contribute more in the group, lead to group success, and become a leader. Agreeableness is the inclination to endure, cooperate, and believe. Workers who have these personalities would be helpful to establish leadership. Besides traits are highly related to leadership, they also fit with behaviors which will achieve the goal. The

Therefore how a leader’s character or personality influences leadership. This paper will critically evaluate how useful is the trait approach to leadership. It begins with

Leadership has been a topic that has been researched for a long time in many disciplines. Leadership as a personality focuses on the characteristics of an individual that gives them power to act as leaders. There is leadership as an attribution this approach views leadership as phenomenon that causes group of followers to have outcomes.(Wu et al, 2010, 90).Researchers have used the following approaches to study leadership; they are mainly trait, behavior, power influence, situation and integrative approaches. Trait approaches focuses on the characteristics, values, skill and personality of leaders. Behavior approaches is focused on the leaders behaviors, differentiating between the behavior of ineffective and effective leaders. Integrative approach combines all the approaches to have a holistic picture of the process, outcomes and determinants of leadership. The approach that this paper uses is situational approach that is not leader centered but more on the significance of the context as an influence of leadership. Leaders should be able to choose the leadership quality appropriate to a particular situation.

Certain abilities are often associated with emotional intelligence such as empathy, “self-regulation, motivations, self-awareness and relationship building” (Morton 2012 p.7). Along with these abilities, the leader should be socially competent. This is “the ability to integrate thinking, feeling and behavior to achieve social tasks and outcome valued in the host context and culture” (Neikerk 2012 p. 49 ). The effective leader “must be adept at driving the collective emotions in a positive direction...able to motivate optimal performance...to elicit the best out of their followers” (Morton 2012 p.16).

This theory is based on the premise that there are certain personality characteristics that are essential for a person to possess in order to be a leader. The main emphasis is on what the person is in terms of a constellation of personality traits. This theory searches for that set of universal leadership traits that will assure success. Numerous traits have been suggested: courage, integrity, loyalty, charisma, ambition, intelligence, honesty, clairvoyance, persistence, arrogance, health, political skill, confidence and vision.

As compared to previous studies, it is difficult to look at the current study as a whole due to the lack of participants that fall under the Extraversion and Neuroticism personalities. However, looking at the other three personality types, it is evident that this study falls in line with previous research. As in a study by Judge, Bono, Ilies, and Gerhardt, (2002), the three traits of personally, in relation to leadership, are similar to that of this study, though in contrast, Conscientiousness takes the place of highest scored while Openness was scored second highest, and Agreeableness

The world of business and politics uses leader traits and behaviors, and takes a first step toward an integrative theory of how leader traits and behaviors influence leadership effectiveness. There are processes to accomplish this, which are followed by a three-stage process. First, based on a narrative review of the literature, a conceptual model is developed that organizes the current literature and models how leader traits and behaviors affect leadership effectiveness. Second, the relative validity is tested of select leader traits and behaviors using a combination of previously published meta-analytic data and new meta-analyses. Third, an investigation is done with an exemplary set of relationships from our conceptual model to see if