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A. CHAPTER: The leader as an Individual

This chapter, we explore individual differences in more depth and examine how variations in personality, attitudes, values, and so forth influence the leader-follower relationship. Leaders' ability to understand their own personalities and attitudes, as well as their ability to understand individual differences among employees, can profoundly affect leadership effectiveness.

Many of today's organizations use personality and other psychometric tests as a way to help people better understand themselves and relate to one another. We begin by considering the importance of leaders knowing themselves, and we look at some potential blind spots leaders may have that limit their understanding and effectiveness. Next, we examine personality and some leader-related personality dimensions. Then the chapter considers how values affect leadership and the ways in which a leader's attitudes influence behaviour. We also explore the role of perception, discuss attributions, and look at cognitive differences, including a discussion of thinking and decision-making styles and the concept of brain dominance. Finally, the chapter considers a few techniques for working with different personality types.

Question

1. Self-awareness is essential for being a good leader. Pros and Cons for leaders having or not having self-awareness and its consequences

2. Extroversion and Introversion are equally positive quality for a leader to have

3. Work effectively with different personalities by treating everyone with respect and dealing with subordinate with negative attitude

4. Source of conflict between leaders and followers