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The role of personality in leadership: an application of the five-factor model in the Australian military

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posted on 2002-07-01, 00:00 authored by L McCormack, David MellorDavid Mellor
This study investigated the relation between the five-factor model (FFM) of personality trait domains and leadership effectiveness. Ninety-nine Australian Army commissioned officers completed the NEO Personality Inventory-Revised (NEO-PI-R; Costa & McCrae, 1992) and were rated by their superior officer on the Australian Army annual leadership effectiveness evaluation schedule. Participants indicated whether they had been selected to attend a leadership promotion course at the Army Command and Staff College, widely regarded within the Army as indicative of an officer's effectiveness. It was hypothesized that leadership effectiveness would be predicted by the personality trait domains of high Conscientiousness, Openness, Agreeableness, and Extraversion and by low Neuroticism. High Conscientiousness and low Extraversion scores predicted high leadership effectiveness and the likelihood of attending the leadership promotion course. High Openness scores also predicted the likelihood of attending the promotion course. The results support the utility of the FFM in exploring the role of personality in leadership effectiveness among military leaders.

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Journal

Military psychology

Volume

14

Pagination

179-197

Location

Hillsdale, N.J.

ISSN

0899-5605

Language

eng

Notes

Online Publication Date: 01 July 2002

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2002, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Issue

3

Publisher

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc

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