THE STUDY OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEADERSHIP STYLES AND PERSONALITY TRAITS OF MANAGERS AND EXECUTIVES

The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship betweenmanagerial style and personality characteristics of managers and executives.The main aim to investigate the relationship between managerial style andpersonality traits of managers and executives. To measure the managerialstyle of leadership style questionnaire Hersey, Blanchard and personalitytraits of NEO Five-Factor Inventory character was used. In order to analyzethe data in this study descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage,mean, standard deviation, minimum and maximum score and tilt and strain,Pearson correlation coefficient, independent t test, Cronbach's alpha andsplit-half methods for the reliability coefficients and the analysis of datacollected from computer software spss version 20 is used. The results of thisstudy showed that there is a significant relationship between personalitytraits and leadership styles that show the two are inseparable.

Keywords:

Leadership styles , personality traits , managers , executives