Trait Approach to Leadership in Campus Organizations: The Hogan Personality Inventory as a Predictor

Abstract

This paper will examine the traits associated with leadership in registered student organizations on the Missouri University of Science and Technology campus from spring semesters 2008, 2009, and 2010. the students' personalities were evaluated using the Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI), which entering freshmen voluntarily complete. Scores in the 7 scales of the HPI were used along with the executive leadership positions obtained from co-curricular transcripts for analysis. based on the 2007 freshmen class, interpersonal sensitivity was the only statistically significant trait that correlated with a student becoming president of an organization. Similarly, the interpersonal sensitivity scores on the HPI were statistically different for students who were presidents from the rest of the student population that year. This study also examined if personality traits influenced which organizations students joined and found that traits correlated with students joining Greek, honor and professional, academic and departmental, and design organizations. Copyright, American Society for Engineering Management, 2011.

Department(s)

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering

Second Department

Psychological Science

International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

978-161839361-6

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

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text

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English

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© 2024 American Society for Engineering Management, All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Dec 2011

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