What Traits Matter for Leadership

question 26

Essay

What traits matter for leadership?

Apply knowledge of personality theories to interpret human behavior and personality assessments.

Understand the characteristics and applications of various personality tests such as CPI, 16PF, MMPI, and MBTI.

Recognize the two basic types of personality tests and their purposes.

Identify the practical considerations in choosing psychological tests for research or clinical practice.

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Definitions:

Rationality

Primarily, the ability to think and to act according to goals, plans, and strategies. Rationality is also thinking well and effectively and having good, well-conceived goals, plans, and strategies. In the first instance, rationality is to be contrasted with nonrationality; in the second instance, it is contrasted with irrationality. Worms are nonrational; fools and fanatics are irrational.

Powerful

Pertaining to having great power, influence, or effect.

Empirical Truth

A statement that is true because of the facts and knowable through experience.

A Priori Truth

Knowledge that is true independently of experience, known through reason alone.