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Leadership Traits
and Ethics
Copyright © 2010 by South-Western/Cengage Learning
All rights reserved.
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PowerPoint Presentation by Rhonda S. Palladi
Georgia State University
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List the benefits of classifying personality traits.
Describe the Big Five personality dimensions.
Explain the universality of traits of effective leaders.
Discuss why the trait of dominance is so important for
managers to have.
State how the Achievement Motivation Theory and the
Leader Motive Profile are related and different.
Identify similarities and differences among Theory X and
Theory Y, the Pygmalion Effect, and self-concept.
Describe how attitudes are used to develop four leadership
styles.
Compare the three levels of moral development.
Explain the stakeholder approach to ethics.
Define the key terms listed at the end of the chapter.
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Chapter 2
Learning Outcomes
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Traits and Personality
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Are distinguishing personal characteristics
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Personality
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Is a combination of traits that classifies an
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What Value Do Traits and Personality Have
in the Study of Leadership?
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Understanding people’s personalities is
important because personality affects
behavior as well as perceptions and
attitudes
Knowing personalities help to explain and
predict others’ behavior and job
performance
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The Big Five Model of Personality
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Surgency
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Agreeableness
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Conscientiousness
Openness to
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Source: Adapted from T. A. Judge, D. Heller, and M. K. Mount. “Five-Factor Model of Personality and Job Satisfaction:
A Meta-Analysis.” Journal of Applied Psychology 87 (June 2002), 530(12).
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Surgency (dominance)
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The Big Five
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Leadership and extraversion traits
Want to be in charge
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Traits related to getting along with people
Sociable, friendly
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Adjustment
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Traits related to emotional stability
– Stable = self-control, calm, good under pressure,
relaxed, secure, and positive
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The Big Five (cont.)
Conscientiousness
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Traits related to achievement
Responsible and dependable
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Openness to experience
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Traits related to the willingness to try new
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Seek change
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Personality Profiles
Identify individual stronger and weaker
traits
Are used to ensure a proper match
between the worker and the job
Are also used to categorize people as a
means of predicting job success
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Why Executives Are Derailed
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Used a bullying style viewed as intimidating,
insensitive, and abrasive
Were viewed as being cold, aloof, and arrogant
Betrayed personal trust
Were self-centered and viewed as overly
ambitious and thinking of the next job
Had specific performance problems with the
business
Overmanaged and were unable to delegate or
build a team
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Traits of Effective Leaders
Internal locus
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Integrity
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High energy
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Sensitivity
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Dominance
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Traits of
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Flexibility
Intelligence
Self-confidence
Stability
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Traits of Effective Leaders (cont.)
Dominance
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High energy
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Want to be in charge
Not overly bossy or bullying
Affects all other traits
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Drive, hard work, stamina, persistence
Tolerate stress well
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Self-confidence
Trust own judgments, decisions, ideas,
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Related to effectiveness and advancement
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Traits of Effective Leaders (cont.)
Locus of control
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Internal = belief in the control of your own
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External = belief in fate, luck, etc.
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Stability
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Emotionally in control, secure, positive
Associated with managerial effectiveness and
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Integrity
Honest, ethical, trustworthy
Essential to running a successful business
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Traits of Effective Leaders (cont.)
Intelligence
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– Self-awareness
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Is the ability to think critically, solve problems, and
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Is the best predictor of job performance
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Being conscious of your own emotions and how they affect
your personal and professional life
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The ability to understand others
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– Self-management
The ability to control disruptive emotions
– Relationship management
The ability to work well with others
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Traits of Effective Leaders (cont.)
Flexibility
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Change, adjust to changes
The ability to influence others about change
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Sensitivity
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Understand group members as individuals,
communicate well, people centered
Requires empathy
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Achievement Motivation Theory
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Attempts to explain and predict behavior
and performance based on a person’s
need for achievement, power, and
affiliation
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Internal locus of control
Self-confidence
High energy
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Characteristics of the
Need for Achievement (n Ach)
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Moderate risks
Competitive
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Want to be in charge (in authority)
Self-confident
High energy
Competitive
Ambitious
Less concerned with people
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Characteristics of the
Need for Power (n Pow)
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Characteristics of the
Need for Affiliation (n Aff)
Strong personal relationships
Sensitivity to others
Joiners
Prefer “helping professions”
Concerned about what people think of
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Usually have low need for power
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Avoid leadership
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Leader Motive Profile (LMP)
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Is a set of traits that match up to the
“typical” effective leader
Tends to have a high need for socialized
power, a moderate need for
achievement, and a lesser need for
affiliation
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– Used for the good of one’s self, the group, and the
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Personalized power
– Used for personal gain at the expense of others
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Combined Traits and Needs
The Big Five
Model of
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Nine Traits of
Effective Leaders
Achievement
Motivation Theory
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Domination
Agreeableness
Sensitivity to others
Adjustment
Stability
Socialized power
(LMP)
Conscientiousness
High energy
Self-confidence
Integrity
Need for
achievement
Internal locus of control
Intelligence
Flexibility
No separate need;
included within other
needs
Need for power
Need for affiliation
Openness to
experience
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Surgency
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Leadership Attitudes
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Are positive or negative feelings about
people, things, and issues
Job attitudes and performance are
perhaps the two most central sets of
constructs in individual-level
organizational analysis research
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Theory X and Theory Y
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Leadership Attitudes (cont.)
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Pygmalion effect
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Attempt to explain and predict leadership
behavior and performance based on the
leader’s attitude about followers
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Proposes that leaders’ attitudes toward and
expectations of followers, and their
treatment of them, explain and predict
followers’ behavior and performance
Self-concept
Refers to the positive or negative attitudes
people have about themselves
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Theory Y Attitude:
Employees like to work
Employees do not need
to be closely supervised
Managers display more
participative leadership
Managers use internal
motivation and rewards
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Theory X Attitude:
Employees dislike work
Employees must be
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Managers display more
coercive, autocratic
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Managers use external
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Theory X versus Theory Y
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Discussion Question #1
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McGregor published Theory X and
Theory Y over 30 years ago. Do
we still have Theory X managers?
Why?
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The Pygmalion Effect
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Proposes that the leaders' attitudes
toward and expectations of followers,
and their treatment of them, explain and
predict followers' behavior and
performance
In other words:
“If you think you can,
you can;
if you think you can’t,
you can’t.”
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