Lesson 2: Trait Approach Flashcards
(T/F) In application, the trait approach can help individual pinpoint their strengths and weaknesses.
True
Describe 3 strengths of the trait approach.
- Emphasizes the leader in the leadership process.
- A century of research backs it up.
- It is intuitively appealing.
Emotional intelligence has to do with two different domains and interplay between them. The two domains are
Affective and cognitive.
(T/F) A major strength of the trait approach is that it is quite useful for training.
False
Traits associated with effective leadership.
Intelligence, self-confidence, determination, integrity, sociability.
(T/F) The Big Five & Leadership meta-analysis found that the factor most strongly associated with leadership was conscientiousness.
False. Extraversion was the factor most strongly associated with leadership. Order: Extraversion, conscientiousness, openness, low neuroticism, agreeableness.
(T/F) The trait approach has a century of research to back it up.
True
(T/F) Whereas the skills approach emphasizes the personality characteristics of the leader, the trait approach emphasizes the behavior of the leader.
False
Trait research…
shows that successful leaders tend to have certain identified traits.
Mary has managed the mailroom for two years. Management views Mary as a person with special leadership talents, such as intelligence, sociability, and determination. Manage is using which of the following approaches?
Trait approach.
In a major review in 1948, Stogdill suggested that
no consistent set of traits differentiated leaders from non-leaders.
Social intelligence includes
appropriate public behavior, self-monitoring, social awareness, social acumen, and the ability to select and enact the best response given the contingencies of the situation and social environment.
(T/F) The trait approach determines the most important traits a highly objective way.
False
(T/F) In his early studies, Stogdill found that leaders in one situation would almost always be leaders in another situation.
False
(T/F) The “great person” approach stresses that leaders’ traits are learned.
False
(T/F) The “great person” approach focuses on important political leaders.
True
(T/F) The trait approach focuses primarily on the leader, not on the followers or the situation.
True
(T/F) The trait approach failed to identify a definitive set of specific leadership traits.
True
The trait approach emphasizes…
Leader personality. No set of hypotheses or emphasis on behavior.
Researchers agree that leadership
is influenced by the situation.
Charismatic leaders consistently possess traits of
self-monitoring, engagement in impression management, motivation to attain social power, and motivation to attain self-actualization.
(T/F) Based on results from later studies, Stogdill argued that personality and situational factors were both determinants of leadership.
True
Emotional intelligence includes our ability to perceive and
to use emotions to facilitate thinking, to manage emotions within oneself, to reason/understand emotions, and to express emotions.
The trait approach is appealing because
people have a need to see their leaders as gifted people, and it has been in existence for over 100 years.
(T/F) The trait approach emphasizes that leaders resides within the individual.
True
(T/F) Some studies have suggested that masculinity is a leadership trait.
True
According to the trait approach, leaders should
have integrity, determination, intelligence, self-confidence, and sociability.
