MAN 337 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Job Satisfaction, Extraversion And Introversion, Conscientiousness
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Traditional theories: trait theories: differentiate leaders from non-leaders by focusing on personal qualities and characteristics. Most of the leadership traits could be subsumed under one of the big five traits. Resulted in strong support of big five traits being predictors of leadership. Extraversion is the most important; but results show that extraversion is related to leadership emergence, not effectiveness. Conscientiousness and openness to experience also related to leadership. Recent studies suggest that emotional intelligence is important to effective leadership: behavioral theories: focused on observable behaviors exhibited by specific leaders (leaders can be trained!) Two dimensions of leadership: employee oriented: emphasizing interpersonal relations; they took an interest in the needs of their employees and accepted individual differences among members. Fiedler model: proposes that effective group performance depends on the proper (cid:373)at(cid:272)h (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) the leader"s style a(cid:374)d the degree to (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h the situatio(cid:374) gives control to the leader.
