Business Administration 3323K Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Wisconsin National Guard, Extraversion And Introversion, Neuroticism
3 Dec 2015
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Of interest to scholars throughout the 20th century, the trait approach was on of the rst systematic attempts to study leadership. In the early 20th century, leadership traits were studied to determine what made certain people great leaders,. The theories that were developed were called great man theories because they focused on identifying the innate qualities and characteristics possessed by great social, political, and military leaders. It was believed that people were born with these traits, and that only the great people possessed them. In the mid-20th century, the trait approach was challenged by research that questioned the universality of leadership traits. Rather than being a quality that individuals possess, leadership was reconceptualized as a relationship between people in a social situation. The trait approach has generated much interest among researchers for its explanation of how traits in uence leadership. Allier found that traits were strongly associated with individuals" perceptions of leadership.
