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Followers' Personality and Leadership

Hilde Hetland

University of Bergen, Hilde.Hetland@ Psysp.uib.no

Gro Mjeldheim Sandal

University of Bergen

Tom Backer Johnsen

University of Bergen

The study presented in this article investigates how the personality of subordinates is related to leadership, an area largely neglected in prior research. Subordinates (n = 289) rated their immediate superior on transformational, transactional, and passive-avoidant leadership measured by the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) and completed the NEO-FFI, with the five traits neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. The results revealed that subordinates' personality (n = 289) was only moderately associated with leadership ratings. Links were found between ratings of transformational leadership and subordinates' level of neuroticism and agreeableness. Furthermore, ratings of passive-avoidant leadership were associated with subordinates' level of agreeableness and openness.

Key Words: subordinates' personality • transformational leadership • transactional leadership • passive-avoidant leadership • NEO-FFI • MLQ • structural equation modeling • leadership ratings • followers' personality

Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, Vol. 14, No. 4, 322-331 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1548051808315550
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