HROB 2010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Hierarchical Organization, Job Performance, Divergent Thinking
20 Oct 2020
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Week 6 foundations and early days: traits and skills. Qualities and characteristics possessed by great social, political and military leaders. It was believed that people were born with these traits and only great" people possessed them. Suggested that no consistent set of traits differentiated leaders from non-leaders in many situations. Leadership was reconceptualized as a relationship between people in a social situation. First study from 1904-1947 identified a group of important leadership traits: found that an average individual in a leadership role is different from an average group member with regard to. Intelligence, insight, responsibility, initiative persistence, self-confidence and sociability: found that the traits the leaders possess must be relevant to situations in which the leader is functioning. Leaders tend to have higher intelligence than non-leaders. Having strong verbal ability, perceptual ability and reasoning appears to make one a better leader. Optimal iq for perceived leadership was one standard deviation about the mean of the group membership.
