Leadership Styles and Associated Personality Traits

Support for the Conceptualisation of Transactional and Transformational Leadership

Bibliographic Data

ID11011663
AuthorsRené van Eeden (0000-0002-7032-3724, University of South Africa, corresponding author), Frans Cilliers (0000-0001-6185-6978, University of South Africa), Vasi van Deventer (0000-0003-1967-6185, University of South Africa)
Year2008
Volume38
Issue2
Pages253-267
Publication date2008-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSouth African Journal of Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0081-2463 • E-ISSN: 2078-208X
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/008124630803800201
OpenAlexW2128754999
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited26

The full range model of leadership includes laissez-faire behaviour, transactional leadership, and transformational leadership. The model conceptualises leadership in terms of the behaviours associated with various styles and this conceptualisation has been empirically supported. In this article the personality traits of managers exercising different leadership styles are explained in terms of, and add to, the description of these styles. Members of a management team were assessed in terms of their preferred leadership styles and two groups were identified. Some of the managers relied on both transformational behaviours and active transactional behaviours with an absence of behaviours associated with passive styles. The rest of the managers used behaviours associated with all the styles. An integrated personality profile was compiled for each manager. Definite trends were observed when comparing the profiles of the managers in the two leadership groups. Transformational leadership was defined in terms of the interpersonal more than the visionary aspect of leadership with interpersonal styles and work and social ethics being emphasised. Behaviours associated with transactional leadership as well as with more passive styles were also noted. The findings provide further support for the conceptualisation of leadership in terms of the full range model of leadership

Big Five personality traits · Cross-cultural leadership · Interpersonal communication · Leadership · Leadership studies · Leadership style · Neuroleadership · Personality · Shared leadership · Situational leadership theory · Transactional leadership · Transformational leadership · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior · Management and Organizational Studies · Management Theory and Practice · Psychology · Social Psychology

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