INSIGHTS INTO LEADERSHIP AND PERSONALITY

Cătălina Radu

Proceedings of the INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE, 2020, vol. 14, issue 1, 461-477

Abstract: This paper's main objective is to verify some correlations between specific dimensions of personality and leadership, seen as a facet of personality. The research involved administering an online questionnaire in December 2019, which collected information on leadership, self-confidence, emotional instability, unpretentiousness, comprehension, and honesty-humility. The study was conducted on a group of 269 participants. Nonprobability sampling was used, based on the availability criterion. Results supported most of the hypotheses. Thus, people with a higher level of self-confidence have a higher level of leadership; also, people with a higher level of emotional instability have a lower level of leadership, and, respectively, people with a higher level of comprehension have a higher level of leadership. Scores obtained for the leadership scale show that men have a higher level than women, and managers score higher than people who do not have a management role. The hypothesis that unpretentiousness and the level of leadership are inversely correlated remains controversial since, on the one hand, unpretentiousness brings a plus in exercising influence over others, but, on the other hand, contrasts with the desire for affirmation of those who lead.

Keywords: leadership; personality; self-confidence; gender differences; managers. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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