ADMS 2511 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Big Five Personality Traits, Transformational Leadership, Extraversion And Introversion
1 May 2018
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ADMS 2511 Lecture 5 Notes – Vision in Culture
Introduction
• A isio is iportat i a ulture, the, ut ho it’s fored ad ouiated a
still need to vary by culture.
• A GE eeutie ho used his U“ leadership stle i Japa realls, Nothig happeed.
• I quickly realized that I had to adapt my approach, to act more as a consultant to my
colleagues and to adopt a team-based motivational decision-making process rather than
the more vocal style which tends to be common in the West.
• In Japan the silence of a leader means far more than a thousand words uttered by
soeod else.
• Leadership plas a etral part i uderstadig group ehaiour eause it’s the leader
who usually directs us toward our goals.
• Knowing what makes a good leader should thus be valuable in improving group
performance.
• The early search for a set of universal leadership traits failed.
• However, recent efforts using the Big Five Personality Model show strong and consistent
relationships between leadership and extraversion, conscientiousness, and openness to
experience.
• The ehaioural approah’s ajor otriutio as arroig leadership ito task-
oriented (initiating structure) and people-oriented (consideration) styles.
• By considering the situation in which the leader operates, contingency theories
proised to iproe o the ehaioural approah, ut ol Fiedler’s least preferred o-
worker theory has fared well in leadership research.
• Research on charismatic and transformational leadership has made major contributions
to our understanding of leadership effectiveness.
• We often ascribe heroic qualities to our leaders.
• They are courageous in the face of great risk.
• They persevere when few would.
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