HROB 2010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Impression Management, Social Intelligence, Extraversion And Introversion
17 Oct 2017
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The trait approach was one of the first systematic attempts to study leadership. Theories developed in the early 20th century were called, great man theories because they focused on identifying the innate qualities and characteristics possessed by great social, political and military leaders (ex. It was believed that people were born with these traits: research concentrated on determining the specific traits that clearly differentiated leaders from followers. In a study to determine what distinguishes charismatic leaders from others, jung and sosik (2006) found that charismatic leaders consistently possess traits of: self-monitoring, engagement in impression management, motivation to attain social power, motivation to attain self actualization. Mann"s study: mann (1959) conducted a similar survey, he suggested that certain traits could be used to distinguish leaders from non-leaders, his stated leaders were strong in the following 6 traits: Lord et al. (1986: dominance, extraversion, conservatism.
