The search for personality, social, physical or intellectual attributes that describes leaders from non-leaders goes back to 1930s. Research efforts in leadership traits resulted in a number of dead ends. A review of different studies identified that, leadership traits were common in five out of twenty cases. The research was carried out to find out a set of traits that would differentiate leaders from followers but the research failed. The overall cumulative finding from research conclude that, some traits increase the likelihood of becoming leaders but none of the traits will guarantee a success.
Psychologists working in an area of trail theory are concerned with:
a. Determining the basic traits that provide a meaningful description of personality. b. Finding some way to measure them. There are two ways of assessing personality traits:
i. The person describes himself by answering questions about his attitudes, feelings and behaviours.
ii. Someone else evaluates the person’s traits from what he knows about the individual.
With the first method, a personality inventory is most often used, whereas the second, usually involves a rating scale. A personality inventory is essentially a questionnaire in which the person reports the reactions or feelings in certain situations.
A rating scale is a device for recording judgement about traits. A rating scale is filled up by someone else by what he knows about the individual or by studying his behaviour in certain situations.
Titany answered the question on September 7, 2021 at 11:35
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