Trait-based perspectives of leadership.

By Stephen J. Zaccaro. American Psychologist, 2007

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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It’s about Time! CEOs’ Temporal Dispositions, Temporal Leadership, and Corporate Entrepreneurship (2017, background): “Although leaders with the requisite traits have great potential for specific leadership behaviors, they need certain skills and must take certain actions to actualize this potential and be successful (Yukl, 2006; Zaccaro, 2007).”
The Psychology of Personnel Selection (2010, neutral): “There is no doubt about the revival in the past fifteen to twenty years of the trait approach to leadership (Zaccaro, 2007), and one of the reasons for this revival is the emergence of the five-factor model of personality (see Section 7.”
Asking the Right Questions About Leadership: Discussion and Conclusions (2007, background): “Indeed, Zaccaro (2007, this issue) argued that the same traits that differentiate leaders and followers also contribute to a person’s effectiveness in enacting the leadership role.”
Dichotomies, dialectics and dilemmas: New directions for critical leadership studies? (2014, background): “There are also signs here that the conceptual pendulum may be swinging back to leaders, with trait theory undergoing something of a resurgence (e.g. Zaccaro, 2007).”
Leader personality traits and employee voice behavior: mediating roles of ethical leadership and work group psychological safety. (2009, background): “For decades, researchers have debated whether personality traits are meaningful predictors of leader emergence or effectiveness (Judge, Bono, Ilies, & Gerhardt, 2002; Lord, DeVader, & Alliger, 1986; Zaccaro, 2007).”
Stubborn Reliance on Intuition and Subjectivity in Employee Selection (2008, background): “This view is reinforced by leadership theorists who assert that leader characteristics exhibit complex configural relations with leadership outcomes (e.g., Zaccaro, 2007).”
Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Intelligence and Personality as Predictors of Sales Leadership Performance (2012, background): “A range of organizational outcomes have been associated with aspects of personality, including job performance (Barrick & Mount, 1991; Lord et al., 1986; Zaccaro, 2007) and leader performance (Judge, Bono, Ilies, & Gerhardt, 2002).”
A longitudinal analysis of relationships between adolescent personality and intelligence with adult leader emergence and transformational leadership (2011, background): “Extraversion Intelligence Leadership Fullerton Longitudinal Study There is a long and complex history of research on the relationship between traits and leadership (Bass & Bass, 2008; Zaccaro, 2007).”
How do leadership motives affect informal and formal leadership emergence (2013, methodology): “Despite ebbs and flows in the study of leadership traits, research on traits has been prominent throughout the history of leadership research (Zaccaro, 2007).”
A process model of self-regulation and leadership: How attentional resource capacity and negative emotions influence constructive and destructive leadership (2015, background): “The majority of leadership trait studies do not examine the interaction of contextual factors, such as task difficulty, and state-like leader attributes such as self-regulation and proactivity (see Avolio, 2007; Zaccaro, 2007, 2012).”
When managers become leaders: The role of manager network centralities, social power, and followers' perception of leadership (2017, background): “A manager’s positive and negative network centralities—the number of incoming positive and negative ties—are expected to predict the extent to which followers classify the manager as a leader (Zaccaro, 2007).”
The role of the situation in leadership. (2007, background): “Zaccaro (2007) made the case for resurrecting the study of leadership traits, arguing that their rejection was premature and based on something other than an unbiased appraisal of the evidence.”