Although a number of traits and characteristics are relevant to leadership, two limitations have caused leadership research to move in a different direction...

What will be an ideal response?


First, many of the trait-leadership correlations are weak in magnitude, particularly when leader effectiveness serves as the outcome.

Second, the focus on leader traits holds less practical relevance than a focus on leader actions. Although research shows that traits can seemingly have an effect on leader effectiveness, these effects are generally explained much more strongly by leader behavior.

Communication & Mass Media

You might also like to view...

The FCC’s replacement EEO rules were overturned in a 2001 decision:

a) Turner Broadcasting v. FCC; b) Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod v. FCC; c) Capital Cities Cable v. Crisp; d) U.S. v. Playboy Entertainment; e) MD/DC/DE Broadcasters Association v. FCC.

Communication & Mass Media

Project teams are formed

a. to accomplish a specific task. b. with highly specialized individuals. c. to develop a new product. d. all of these.

Communication & Mass Media

Xerox, Procter and Gamble, Volvo, and General Electric have introduced self ?managing teams, with a successive rise in productivity of __________

a. 5–10% b. 10–25% c. 25–40% d. 40–50%

Communication & Mass Media

Effective group members in positions of power engage in team talk by refraining from talking and interrupting members more than others do

True False

Communication & Mass Media