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DEFINITION
The
ability to
influence a group
towards the
achievement of a
vision or set of goals.
DEFINITION
THEORIES OF
LEADERSHIP
Trait Theories.
Behavioral
Theories.
Contingency
Theories.
TRAIT THEORIES
CHARISMATIC LEADERS
Max
EXTRAVERSION
AGREEABLENESS
The
agreeableness
dimension
refers to an individual's propensity
to
defer
to
others.
Highly
agreeable people are cooperative,
warm, and trusting. People who
score low on agreeableness are
cold,
disagreeable,
and
antagonistic.
CONSCIENTIOUSNESS
The
conscientiousness dimension
is a measure of reliability. A highly
conscientiousness person is
responsible, organized,
dependable, and persistent.
Those who score low on this
dimension are easily distracted,
disorganized and unreliable.
EMOTIONAL STABILITY
THE EMOTIONAL STABILITY DIMENSION
often labeled by its converse, neuroticism
taps a person's ability to withstand stress.
People with positive emotional stability tend to
be calm, self-confident, and secure. Those with
high negative scores tend to be nervous,
anxious, depressed and insecure.
OPENNESS TO EXPERIENCE : The
openness to experience dimension addresses
range of interests and fascination with novelty.
Extremely open people are creative, curious
and artistically sensitive. Those at the other
end of the category are conventional and find
comfort in the familiar.
BEHAVIORAL THEORIES
The
The
most
comprehensive
theories
resulted from the Ohio State Studies in the
late 1940s, which sought to identify
independent
dimensions
of
leader
behavior. Beginning with more than a
thousand
dimensions,
the
studies
narrowed the list to two that substantially
accounted for most of the leadership
behavior described by employee :
initiating structure and consideration.
INITIATING STRUCTURE
& CONSIDERATION
is
Consideration