This article provides a qualitative review of the trait perspective in leadership research, followed by a meta-analysis. The authors used the five-factor model as an organizing framework and meta-analyzed 222 correlations from 73 samples. Overall, the correlations with leadership were Neuroticism .24, Extraversion .31, Openness to Experience .24, Agreeableness .08, and Conscientiousness .28. Results indicated that the relations of Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness to Experience, and Conscientiousness with leadership generalized in that more than 90% of the individual correlations were greater than 0. Extraversion was the most consistent correlate of leadership across study settings and leadership criteria (leader emergence and leadership effectiveness). Overall, the five-factor model had a multiple correlation of .48 with leadership, indicating strong support for the leader trait perspective when traits are organized according to the five-factor model.

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Personality and leadership: a qualitative and quantitative review.

Re-examen de la relation entre des traits de personnalite issus de theories actuelles de la perception sociale et les perceptions du leadership ou l'etendue de l'emergence d'un leader

A meta-analysis of the relation between personality traits and leadership perceptions: an application of validity generalization procedures

John M. Greenwood

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