Your Company's HR Director Is a Believer in Trait Theories

question 77

Multiple Choice

Your company's HR director is a believer in trait theories of leadership.He believes that he can differentiate leaders from non-leaders by focusing on personal qualities and characteristics.You want to help shed some light on this perspective. You should inform your HR director that research efforts show that traits do:

• A)a better job predicting the emergence of leaders and the appearance of leadership than actually distinguishing between effective and ineffective leaders.
• B)a better job distinguishing between effective and ineffective leaders than actually predicting the emergence of leaders and the appearance of leadership.
• C)not provide any useful input into the prediction of leadership behaviour.
• D)not provide any useful input into the prediction of leadership tendency or emergence.