Leadership And Personality

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Leadership and Personality Catalog Abstract 1 Background and Introductions 1 Relationship between Leadership and Personality 3 Conclusion 4 Personal Application 5 References 7 Abstract This paper proposes that personality confluence people’s leadership capabilities and different personality types toward corresponding leadership focuses. A review of the studies about leadership and personality analysis is given. The nature of the relationships between leadership and personality is discussed. The model is the big five personality traits, with charts and explanations presented. At the end, this article provides author’s personal application as a further research result. Background and Introductions The ancient era of leadership theory, from about 2300 B.C. to 1A.D., was characterized by the idea of leaders being great men. These men were sources of authority and justice. The classical era of leadership range from 1 A.D. to 1869 and the neoclassical era range from 1870 to 1939 encompassing a substantial portion of the industrial era. During the 1980’s theorists began to recognize the importance of personal and national cultural influence on leadership paradigms. In the global economy of the 21st century, occidental management theories and techniques in some form will be adapted to countries around the world. Current studies of leadership conclude three main parts: Leader effectiveness, Job satisfaction, Personality and Leadership. The word personality comes from the Latin 'persona', meaning 'mask'. Personality refers to the characteristics of the person that account for consistent patterns of feeling, thinking and behaving. One way in which people differ and which is very useful in studying
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