Question

Your company's HR director is a believer in trait theories of leadership. He believes that he can differentiate leaders from non-leaders by focusing on personal qualities and characteristics. He asks for your expertise in helping him to apply trait theory to leadership selection within your company. You explain that research efforts at isolating leadership traits have:

Answer 1

Answer:

been supportive of the Big Five leadership traits predicting leadership.              

Explanation:

In the question above, the given statement represents that the company's Hr director is using the Big Five leadership traits to differentiate between leaders and non-leaders.

Big Five personality traits theory is a theory that distinguishes the different personality traits that an individual possesses including five distinct dimensions of differentiating different people, they are, openness to experience, conscientiousness, neuroticism, extraversion, and agreeableness.