List and describe four personality traits affecting an administrator's approach to organizational political behavior
What will be an ideal response?
• Hellriegel, Slocum, and Woodman suggest that four personality traits make people prone to exercising political behaviors in organizations. Criminal justice administrators also display these traits.
• The need for power: Leaders who seek to simply dominate others through expressions of power will create climates where political behavior is more likely than those leaders who seek power to move employees toward some identifiable and acceptable levels of performance.
• Machiavellianism: Predicated on the ideas of manipulation and deceit, this trait accentuates manipulation of employees for specific ends. In the long run, it perpetuates greater division among employees and between employees and administrators.
• Locus of control: Refers to individuals whose high internal locus causes their belief that they are able to control and influence people and their surroundings.
• Finally, Risk-seeking propensity: These leaders view risk-taking as a necessity within a politically charged organization.
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