
LEADERSHIP TRAITS AND
SKILLS
UNIT 02
Do Thi Thanh Huong
Foreign Trade University

UNIT OUTLINE
•TRAIT APPROACH
ØStudies on leader’s traits (personality characteristics)
ØMajor leadership traits
ØVideo case: discussion on leader’s personality
characteristics
ØGroup discussion on Strengths, Weaknesses and Application
of Leadership Trait Theory
•SKILLS APPROACH
ØDescription:
•Three-skill approach
•Skills models
ØAssessment of skills approach
ØApplication

TRAIT APPROACH
“Leaders were born with some innate qualities and
characteristics and only the “great” people possessed them.”
•How much is this true? Implication to leadership development?
•The Trait Approach was the first systematic attempts to study
leadership (Early 20th century)

LEADERSHIP TRAITS AND CHARACTERISTICS
TRADITIONAL STUDIES
Stogdill
(1948)
Mann
(1959)
Stogdill (1974)
Lord,
DeVader
&
Alliger
(1986)
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Intelligence
•
Alertness
•
Insight
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Responsibility
•
Initiative
•
Persistence
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Self-confidence
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Sociability
•
Intelligence
•
Masculinity
•
Adjustment
•
Dominance
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Extroversion
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Conservatism
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Achievement
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Persistence
•
Insight
•
Initiative
•
Self-confidence
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Responsibility
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Cooperativeness
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Tolerance
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Influence
•
Sociability
•
Intelligence
•
Masculinity
•
Dominance


