Abstract
The aim of this study is to examine the five big traits(extraversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientious, and neuroticism), and to investigate their impact on the prevailing leadership style of the branch managers of banks working at Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. To achieve this aim, the study utilized a questionnaire consists of two validated, well established, international instruments: the first one is the Big Five Inventory (BFI) developed by John and Srivastava (1999) and includes 44-item inventory that measures an individual on the big five factors (dimensions) of personality, the second instrument called Least Preferred Coworker Scale (LPC) scale developed by Fiedler to identify a person’s dominant leadership style. This questionnaire has been distributed to a simple random sample consist of 265 branch managers of those banks. A total of 105 complete questionnaires has been received back at a response rate of 40%. After analyzing data and testing hypotheses, the study revealed a lack of impact of the big five personality traits on the leadership styles of the branch managers of the banks working in Jordan, this lack of impact appeared in both cases: combined five traits, and individual one trait. The study revealed also that four of the five personality traits (extraversion, openness, conscientious, and neuroticism) are available at an unaccepted level in the traits and attributes of the branch managers of banks working in Jordan, meanwhile the trait agreeableness is the only trait available at an accepted level on the traits of those managers.
Highlights
Daft (2014) debated that a basic difference between management and leadership is that management focuses on stability, encourages following standard procedures and problem solving within organizational system
Availability of the big five personality traits in the attributes and characteristics of the branch managers of the banks working in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan : The study applied the 44 item inventory that measures an individual on the big five dimensions of personality that was recreated from the big five inventory (BFI) developed by John and Strivastava (1999).The results of the tests are illustrated in table-1, the sample statistics show that Agreeableness trait (μ = 3.6138) is available at an accepted level in the attributes and characteristics of the branch managers of the banks working in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Four of the five personality traits are available at an unaccepted level in the traits and attributes of the branch managers of banks working in Jordan, the trait agreeableness is the only trait available at an accepted level on the traits of those managers
Summary
Daft (2014) debated that a basic difference between management and leadership is that management focuses on stability, encourages following standard procedures and problem solving within organizational system. Leadership fosters visionary looking, innovative thinking, and exploring novel ideas and methods of doing job, in other words manager takes care of your current place, leader holds you to a preferred place, you didn’t imagine that you can reach it alone. Among all the ideas and writings about leadership, three issues stand out; people, impact, and objectives. Leadership occurs among people, involves the use of impact, and is used to achieve objectives. Leadership can be defined as the ability to regulate and direct people efforts towards the achievement of their goals by highly motivating the employees from an organization. Organizational performance can be affected by some factors, such as, satisfaction, commitment, and motivation (Kim, 2005). Effective leaders can offer their employee higher quality relationships, higher level of adhesiveness, and can provide them higher job satisfaction
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