Thursday, April 28, 2011

Leadership


1. There are lot of leadership theories. The early one can be divided into two; big 5 theory and
traits theory.

2. Big 5 theory normally used to measure personality. The five major personalities that been
described are listed as below:
  • Extroversion - comfort level with relationship
  • Agreeableness - individual propensity to defer to other people
  • Conscientiousness - a measure of reliability
  • Emotion stability - ability of person to handle stress
  • Openness to experience - one range of interest and fascination with novelty
3. Since this is among the earliest theory, the signification sometimes is not correlated.