Trait Approach

As noted, more recent interest in the "Trait Approach" has focused on acquired qualities; the exclusively genetic perspective is largely dead.

See the reproduction of Table 2.1 from your textbook below and note that almost all of the traits that scholars have identified as sometimes distinguishing leaders from non-leaders are acquired, not qualities with which one is born. Ignore the citation of French and Raven in Table 2.1 on p. 19 of the reading assignment, because it is incorrect.

Table 2.1
Note. From Leadership: Theory and Practice (p. 19), by P. Northhouse, 2010, Washington D.C.: Sage Publications, Inc. © 2010 Sage Publications, Inc.
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