CAN PERSONALITY AND BEHAVIOR BE SEPARATED?

Can Personality and Behavior be separated from Leadership Roles?

Can personality and behavior be separated in Leadership Roles?

Introduction

Personality is the Latin word meaning mask. Personality can be define as a combination of organized and dynamic characteristics of an individual, which impact his or her emotions, behaviors, cognitions, and motivation when confront in different situations. Personality traits refer to the process of perceiving, thinking, relating regarding surrounding, and oneself in broad personal and social contexts. The trait theory can be summarize in three points, asserts that with the passage of time traits becomes stable, every individual posses different traits, and traits have a great impact on behavior of an individual.

Many researchers such as Gardner (1989) identify various traits of leadership that assumed to be part of every leader's personality such as, adaptability / flexibility, assertiveness, capacity to motivate people, charisma, courage and resolution, decisiveness, eagerness to accept responsibility, intelligence and action-oriented judgment, need for achievement, physical vitality and stamina, skill in dealing with people, self-confidence, task competence, trustworthiness and understanding of followers and their needs. On the other hand, leaders must possess some behavioral competencies such as participative, directive, and concern for the task and people (Wright 1996). However, the most attractive part of this discussion, which theorist continued to converse since a long time, and every time they come up with some new traits that leader usually posses. This paper studies how personality and behavior be separated leadership roles. For instance, a person with apprehensive personality can be a bold leader.

Discussion

There are numerous real life examples of people who do not possess these traditional personality traits that were perceived to be essential in leadership roles. For instance, the people who were timid, quiet and sensitive or introvert considered being second class citizen in the world of leadership. ...