The Big five Personality: Leadership Styles

Abstract

This report provides you with information regarding the Big five personality traits and Leadership styles. This report is basically based on a survey of 20 people where we link their personality traits to their leadership style, we compare their highest and lowest traits and see how it affects their personality in general.

This report further on provides you a sample of both the self-assessment tests with their scales of assessment. Adding more to this report we will discuss a few recommendations and provide you a conclusion.

Introduction

Numerous contemporary identity analysts trust that there are five essential elements of identity, frequently alluded to as the 'Enormous 5' identity attributes. The five expansive identity characteristics depicted by the hypothesis are extraversion (additionally frequently spelled extroversion), suitability, transparency, reliability, and neuroticism.

Quality speculations of identity have since quite a while ago endeavored to bind precisely what a number of identity attributes exist. Prior hypotheses have recommended a different number of conceivable qualities, including Gordon Allport's rundown of 4,000 identity characteristics, Raymond Cattell's 16 identity components, and Hans Eysenck's three-factor hypothesis.

In any case, numerous specialists felt that Cattell's hypothesis was excessively convoluted and Eysenck's was excessively constrained in extension. Therefore, the five-factor hypothesis rose to portray the fundamental characteristics that fill in as the structure squares of identity. These five categories are usually described as follows.

Openness

This attribute highlights qualities, for example, creative ability and knowledge. Individuals who are high in this quality additionally will in general have a wide scope of interests. They are interested about the world and other individuals and anxious to adapt new things and appreciate new encounters. Individuals who are high in this quality will in general be progressively daring and imaginative. Individuals low in this quality are frequently significantly more conventional and may battle with conceptual reasoning.

High

• Spends time preparing
• Finishes important tasks right away
• Pays attention to detail

Low

• Dislikes structure and schedules
• Makes messes and doesn't take care of things
• Fails to return things or put them back where they belong
• Procrastinates important tasks
• Fails to complete necessary or assigned tasks

Extraversion

Extraversion (or extroversion) is described by volatility, amiability, loquacity, confidence, and high measures of passionate expressiveness. Individuals who are high in extraversion are cordial and will in general increase vitality in social circumstances. Being around other individuals causes them to feel stimulated and energized. Individuals who are low in extraversion (or independent) will in general be progressively held and need to consume vitality in social settings. Get-togethers can feel depleting and contemplative people frequently require a time of isolation and calm so as to 'revive.'

High

• Enjoys being the center of attention
• Likes to start conversations
• Enjoys meeting new people
• Has a wide social circle of friends and acquaintances
• Finds it easy to make new friends
• Feels energized when around other people
• Say things before thinking about them

Low

• Prefers solitude
• Feels exhausted when having to socialize a lot
• Finds it difficult to start conversations
• Dislikes making small talk
• Carefully thinks things through before speaking
• Dislikes being the center of attention

Agreeableness

This identity measurement incorporates characteristics, for example, trust, unselfishness, graciousness, love, and other prosocial practices. Individuals who are high inappropriateness will in general be progressively helpful while those low in this characteristic will in general be increasingly aggressive and occasionally even manipulative.

High

• Has a great deal of interest in other people
• Cares about others
• Feels empathy and concern for other people
• Enjoys helping and contributing to the happiness of other people
• Assists others who are in need of help

Low

• Takes little interest in others
• Doesn't care about how other people feel
• Has little interest in other people's problems
• Insults and belittles others
• Manipulates others to get what they want

Neuroticism

Neuroticism is a quality portrayed by pity, grouchiness, and passionate shakiness. People who are high in this quality will in general experience temperament swings, tension, fractiousness, and misery. Those low in this characteristic will in general be increasingly steady and candidly flexible.

High

• Experiences a lot of stress
• Worries about many different things
• Gets upset easily
• Experiences dramatic shifts in mood
• Feels anxious
• Struggles to bounce back after stressful events

Low

• Emotionally stable
• Deals well with stress
• Rarely feels sad or depressed

Don't worry much

Leadership Styles

Leadership style is the way and approach of giving guidance, executing plans, and persuading individuals. As observed by the representatives, it incorporates the all-out example of unequivocal and verifiable activities performed by their pioneer.

The primary significant investigation of initiative styles was performed in 1939 by Kurt Lewin who drove a gathering of specialists to recognize distinctive styles of administration. This early examination has remained very compelling as it set up the three noteworthy administration styles:

Authoritarian - the pioneer guides his or her workers and how to do it, without getting their recommendation.

Democratic - the pioneer incorporates at least one representative in the basic leadership process, yet the pioneer regularly keeps up an official conclusion-making specialist.

Laissez-fair (free-rein) - the pioneer enables the representatives to settle on the choices, in any case, the pioneer is as yet in charge of the choices that are made.

Procedure

We compiled both our forms and approached 20 people in total and requested them to provide us with their information so that we can analyze their personality traits and leadership styles. The 20 candidates were selected on random sampling techniques and were quite helpful and corporative with our group members.

After the forms were filled by the candidates we compiled the results of each individual and the results clearly showed in what trait and style that individual lied with this we also did a brief analysis of their personality types and leadership styles.

Analysis

Person 1:

This individual has a conscientiousness personality trait and has as a democratic leadership style, according to a few types of research conscientiousness is positively related to a democratic leadership style because a person with a conscientiousness trait is responsible and deliberates for their task that makes them available to do things not for themselves but for others as well, which makes it more understandable because a democratic leader not only works for himself but also make sure that all of his subordinates are contributing equally and if they require help they are always available.

Person 2:

This individual has Extroversion as his highest-rated personality type where as his leadership style is democratic leadership style. Extroversion is positively related to the democratic style because people with this personality type are more social and love interacting with new people and are expressive, confident, conversational and energetic. So if we analyze the personality type and leadership style they somewhat make a good match because if a leader is conversational he can easily get his employee to express new ideas and make them feel comfortable with in the office environment secondly extroversions are energetic which can help them motivate there employees more. This personality type and leadership style can make a successful manager with in an organization.

Person 3:

This individual has a conscientious personality type with an autocratic leadership style. A person with a conscientious personality type is a very honest and loyal person. They are quite dedicated and hardworking which sits well with an autocratic style because they are quite dedicated and focused workers. So, a person with an conscientious personality style will blend well with an autocratic leadership style.

Person 4:

The fourth candidate has a neuroticism personality type with a democratic leadership style, this is quite contradicting because they are quite moody and to experience such feelings as anxiety, worry, fear, anger, and frustration so if we analyze a democratic leader is someone who encourages new ideas and gives opportunity to his employee to explore themselves. So a person with neuroticism might not be good with democratic style because of their mixed feelings and moody behavior might not encourage employee participation and involvement.

Person 5:

This particular individual falls in the agreeableness personality type and owns a democratic leadership style. Such people are quite polite and humble in nature; they easily adjust in different environments and accept their surroundings. Such personalities can blend well with a democratic leadership style because they will easily accept their subordinates and can work according to their behavior and mood. They can have good communication sessions with the employees as they are polite and humble. Such personality can motivate employees to adopt the same behavior towards other employees which will lead to a good working environment.

Person 6:

This person’s personality trait is Openness to Experience because she might be seeking new experiences and intellectual pursuits. She likes to try new things as she is open-minded which is also reflected in her leadership style which is Laissez-Faire Leadership. According to this style, the leaders are hands-off and allow the group members to make decisions. This indubitably is trying new things as it gets out of the usual way of making decisions in which the decisions are made by higher positions only. But as stated in her personality type she likes to try new things and allowing the employees to make decisions is a new thing for sure.

Person 7-8:

The personality trait of both these girls is Conscientiousness because they are honest and hardworking and also they like to follow rules. People who are having this trait are highly task-focused they want the job to be done in the best possible way and this trait is also reflected in their leadership style which is Democratic. Democratic leaders encourage members of a team to take on responsibility in decision making well this is one of the best way to do a task in the best possible manner. If you allow the team members to have a say in decision making then you will get lots of different ideas and you can pick the best one. So their personality type and there leadership style both are striving for the job to be done in the best way.

Person 9:

This person’s personality trait is Openness to Experience because he might be seeking new experiences and intellectual pursuits. He likes to try new things as he is open-minded as it is one of the qualities of people who are of this trait. His personality type goes hand in hand with his leadership style which is Democratic leadership in which the leader encourages his employees to take part in decision-making rather than making decisions on his own in a conventional way which in other words is called trying new things rather than following old rules.

Person 10:

This person’s personality trait is Conscientiousness because he is honest and hardworking and also he might like to follow rules. People who have this trait are highly task-focused they want the job to be done in the best possible way this kind of hard work and dedication is also reflected in his leadership style which is Authoritarian leadership in which the leader dictates policies and procedures, decides which goals are to be achieved and directs and control all activities without any meaningful participation by the employees this type of style requires real dedication, participation, and seriousness towards work which is also reflected in Conscientiousness personality type.

Person 11:

This person has democratic leadership and conscientiousness personality, as these types of people are excellent in leading. They help their subordinates where they want help. They used to work together and were helpful for each other. They are honest in their work and very hardworking. These types of people always try to do their assigned work in time and try to do it according to requirements even how much they have to work on it. They follow rules to do their work or in any condition and they effectively make decisions on their own which might be helpful to gain the assigned target. These type of leadership and personality can be applied to any organization.

Person 12:

This person has an extroverted personality and an authoritarian leadership style. This leads to contradiction because an extrovert person blends well with a laissez-faire leadership style because they are less commanding and more interactive. Where as an autocratic leadership style will go well with a person who has a conscientious personality type, because they are honest, hardworking, and task-focused.

Person 13:

The personality type of this person is Openness to experience and her leadership style is a Democratic leadership style. This person tries to learn new things on her own and wants to perform different things which may give her more experience towards her work and the leadership style suits well as of democratic leadership in which she tries to take suggestions from all the group members and take decisions according to them which may be helpful to the organization and personal relations between the subordinates and coworkers. As they more participate in learning new things.

Person 14:

The personality type of this person is agreeableness and openness to experience and their leadership style is Laissez-Faire Leadership. These types of personalities are friendly, warm, and tactful. They have an optimistic view on human nature and get well along with others. They used to interact people and want to work with them, they love to make new friends at their work and outside the work as well. Mostly they want to learn something new which might help them to build their future. These people are friendly and helpful in work environment. Their belief is that people are decent, honest and trustworthy. As this personality leads to laissez-faire leadership because in this person easily trusts so leaders allow their employees or group members to make decisions on their own as leaders are hands-off so they can work as they want but according to researchers this minimizes the planned outcomes of the organization.

Person 15:

The personality type of this person is Openness to Experience and his leadership style is Democratic Leadership. This type of person wants to learn more things with his high interests and wants to do things on his own to gain effective outcomes. They seek new experiences for their future. These types of people include active imagination, aesthetic sensitivity, attentiveness to inner feelings, preference for variety, and intellectual curiosity. As they are very curious about things and they have imagination, so their members take part in the decision-making process. This type of person use takes ideas from his team members to make it effective as by getting ideas from different people in group or in the organization.

Person 16:

This person I give a form to fill, he was extrovert, they are more likely have a social kind of personality, they usually interact and socialize with new people in different gatherings, social events and take initiatives for presentation and team working. Autocratic Leadership style Example, police, army, fire brigade, basically these people have to adopt autocratic leadership to have command or dictate subordinates to perform action at first call. Leaders and extroverts usually take initiative and are decision-makers in there groups.

Person 17:

This person was scoring in Agreeableness in this he was saying that he adopt his behavior according to the environment so his behavior suits with the other human nature and these people consider others emotions and show sympathy but in leadership, he scored Laissez fair-style where people use their own decision they take opinion with their colleague.

Person 18:

This person was scoring Agreeableness People who score high on agreeableness are very trustworthy, altruistic, honest, modest, empathetic, and cooperative. While he adopts the democratic leadership style is based on mutual respect. It is often combined with participatory leadership because it requires collaboration between leaders and the people they guide.

Person 19:

This person who scored high in conscientiousness that clearly indicates that person is well determined and dedicated and also he scored high in Democratic leadership style both can be similar in a matter of task orientation.

Recommendations

To fit well in today's world or work environment individuals need to enhance and improve their personality as it has a big impact on everyone but working out things clearly do not depend on personality type but also on what leadership style fits your nature. So every individual should assess themselves to know what their personality and leadership style is will help them figure out there weaknesses and strengths. Once they know there weaknesses and strengths, they can work on their weakness to improve themselves in that particular field and can strengthen their strong points.

Conclusion

The Big Five Personality Test and leadership style was valuable for surveying individual identity and qualities and shortcomings. I note that the qualities offer a solid establishment for being a decent worker and for working with general society. I see that the shortcomings should be checked with the goal that can push each individual ahead tenaciously if conditions cause work to begin to heap up around them. Being proactive is the best methodology towards reinforcing moderate scores in the uprightness and passionate classes while permitting qualities in extraversion, agreeableness, and openness to experience to stream normally will make them do well at work, at home, and in life by and large.