Framework
Big Five personality traits
The question it answers
An HR head shortlisting candidates for a management role: which personality traits go with emerging as a leader and with leading well, and which barely matter?
- Origin
- Judge et al., 2002
- Diagram type
- Hub diagram
- Level of analysis
- Individual
- Topics
- Strategy & leadership
Diagram
Big Five personality traits
Personality
ExtraversionHigh
ConscientiousnessMedium
Openness to experienceMedium
AgreeablenessLow
NeuroticismMedium
Pitfalls
Pitfall
Treating personality as destiny, or using it to screen people out. Judge et al. (2002) pooled 222 correlations from 73 samples: extraversion 0.31, conscientiousness 0.28, openness 0.24, neuroticism -0.24, agreeableness only 0.08. These are average correlations across many studies; they do not tell you how one particular person will lead.
Sources
References
Listed A–Z by author surname, Harvard style. A source with a DOI links to https://doi.org/…; one without links to its page or says plainly that it has no DOI.
- Judge, T.A. et al. (2002) ‘Personality and leadership: a qualitative and quantitative review’, Journal of Applied Psychology, 87(4), pp. 765–780.doi:10.1037/0021-9010.87.4.765Source page