Personality traits in leadership behavior

Abstract

Correlational analyses of the personality traits measured by the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI-R; Costa & McCrae, 1992) and three leadership styles, that is, Change, Production, and Employee (CPE) measured by Ekvall and Arvonen's (1991) CPE questionnaire, were performed. The sample was 106 Norwegian leaders. Three common factors comprising leadership styles and personality domains were interpreted as "looking for new possibilities,""hard working," and "dealing with people." Considering personality traits as behavior tendencies in unspecified situational contexts and leadership styles as behavioral tendencies in the leadership context, and due to the self-report nature of the data, it is argued that the factors show consistency in self-perceptions independent of context. The strongest predictors of the CPE total score were Conscientiousness and Extraversion; Openness and Agreeableness were specific predictors of Change and Employee, respectively.

Personality, affective response, and facial blood flow during brief cognitive tasks

“…The inventory consists of 240 items measuring five broad domain factors (i.e., neuroticism, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness). Several studies of the Norwegian version of the NEO PI-R have indicated satisfactory reliability coefficients and very high coefficients of congruence for the five domains when compared with the U.S. normative sample (see Kornbr and Nordvik, 2004).…”

Leader personality and 360‐degree assessments of leader behavior

“…An investigation by van Hooft, van der Flier, and Minne () included one peer and one supervisor rater, and the correlations found were mostly weak to moderate. Also, Kornör and Nordvik () found a multiple correlation of 0.52 when they studied associations between the 360‐degree Change, Production, Employee (CPE) instrument (Arvonen, ) and the NEO‐PI‐R questionnaire (which measures the Big Five dimensions), but this result was based solely on self‐reported data in the 360‐degree instrument.…”

Effects of Response Instructions on Faking a Situational Judgment Test

“…Behavioral tendencies have been used to measure personality traits including leadership (e.g., Kognor & Nordvik, 2004) and workaholism (e.g., Mudrack & Naughton, 2001), to name a few. Further, the trait theory of personality defines personality as ''dimensions of individual differences in tendencies to show consistent patterns of thoughts, feelings, and actions .…”

“…Although personality is commonly measured by trait adjectives (e.g., Goldberg, 1990Goldberg, , 1992 behavioral tendencies have often been used as indicators of personality traits. Behavioral tendencies have been used to measure personality traits including leadership (e.g., Kognor & Nordvik, 2004) and workaholism (e.g., Mudrack & Naughton, 2001), to name a few. Further, the trait theory of personality defines personality as ''dimensions of individual differences in tendencies to show consistent patterns of thoughts, feelings, and actions .…”