Re‐Envisioning a Hierarchy of Leadership Behaviours Using Insights from the Psychological Literature on Personality Traits

Marc H. Anderson; Peter Y. T. Sun

doi:10.1111/joms.12922

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Re‐Envisioning a Hierarchy of Leadership Behaviours Using Insights from the Psychological Literature on Personality Traits

Marc H. Anderson

Peter Y. T. Sun

Journal of Management Studies Vol. 61 No. 4 pp. 1165-1191 · Wiley

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Abstract

AbstractThe current body of research on leadership styles is plagued with the problem of a bewildering number of styles that overlap conceptually and empirically, and whose dimensionality is contested. In this paper, we use analogical reasoning to argue that recommendations based on the personality psychology literature could be used to overcome these and related problems to substantially advance the literature on leadership styles. We argue that scholarly understanding of leadership styles needs to be redeveloped by theoretically identifying root behaviours and then seeing how they aggregate into higher‐level dimensions and meta‐categories. We offer a roadmap that will help facilitate such progress and enable future research to cumulate into a more comprehensive, coherent, and empirically justifiable hierarchical model of leadership behaviours. We also discuss how personality research raises a variety of other interesting analogous questions about leadership behaviours, including how to incorporate situational influences and whether patterns of characteristic leader behaviours develop over time.

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Published: Apr 03, 2023
Vol/Issue: 61(4)
Pages: 1165-1191
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Marc H. Anderson

Iowa State University, Ivy College of Business

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Peter Y. T. Sun

University of Waikato

Cite This Article

Marc H. Anderson, Peter Y. T. Sun (2023). Re‐Envisioning a Hierarchy of Leadership Behaviours Using Insights from the Psychological Literature on Personality Traits. Journal of Management Studies, 61(4), 1165-1191. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12922

Re‐Envisioning a Hierarchy of Leadership Behaviours Using Insights from the Psychological Literature on Personality Traits

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