Who Will Lead? (cont)
➢ Demographic background of leaders
▪ Height, weight, & age ▪ Ethnicity ▪ Sex: Bias against women (even thought women
possess more skills needed to be a successful leader).
What is Leadership ?
“The process of influencing the activities of an organized group in its efforts toward goal setting and goal achievement” (Stogdill, 1950, p. 3)
▪ Trait Model: The great leader theory ▪ Situational Model ▪ Interactional Model: depends on the leader,
followers, and the Great Man Theory
only the great people possessed them
The Great Man Theory
➢ Personal qualities of leaders
▪ Personality traits, such as extraversion, conscientiousness, and openness.
➢ Practically
▪ productively, economically, idealistically
➢ Personally
