Personality type and leadership focus: Relationship between self and line- manager perceptions

SA Journal of Human Resource Management

 
 
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Title Personality type and leadership focus: Relationship between self and line- manager perceptions
 
Creator Sieff, Grant
 
Subject Strategy; Leadership; Performance Management personality type; leadership; self-perception; line-manager; organisation type
Description The relationship between personality type and leadership focus is examined in this article. Personality type is assessed by means of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), and leadership focus is explored both with participants and their line-managers using a Leadership Focus Questionnaire. Petroleum company mid-level managers form the target population of 220. Three leadership focus hypotheses are tested with 53 respondents, addressing (1) optimising external and internal focus, (2) fit with organisation type, and (3) managing a multiple focus. The Pearson Correlation Coefficient, ANOVA and paired T-tests are applied. Results show that in circumstances associated with change, Feeling and Perceiving types are favoured for managing the stress of competing leadership demands. Line-managers of participants rely more on Intuition while participants prefer Sensing in dealing with external stakeholders.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor
Date 2009-06-12
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — quantitative research with qualitative inputs: methodological triangulation
Format application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/sajhrm.v7i1.123
 
Source SA Journal of Human Resource Management; Vol 7, No 1 (2009); 11 pages 2071-078X 1683-7584
 
Language eng
 
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Coverage South African study; global applicability 2005-2007 executives working in a global petrochemical organisation
Rights Copyright (c) 2009 Grant Sieff https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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