The Link Between Big Five Personality Dimensions & Leadership

Introduction
People come in boundless varieties and the same can be said for leaders. In the last few years, many studies have emerged that concentrated on leadership and personality. Personality can be defined as the relatively stable set of psychological characteristics that influences the way an individual interacts with his or her environment (Johns, 1996). Due to measurement problems, personality has a rather strenuous history in organizations. Consequently many theories and personality tests have spawned in the last few decades.
One of the most recognized and an established method of…