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several studies concerning leadership, they discovered
toat the person who is above average in height and
weight and who is attractive in appearanco has a better
chance of being promoted to a loadership position.
Stogdill (13)> after an examination of several studies,
reported that the person who is in a position of leader-
snip is superior to the average person in his group in
Intelligence, scholarship, dependability, activity, and
socio-economic status* Stogdill also found that the
leader is above average in sociability, initiative, per-
sistence . self-confidence, alertness, cooperativeness,
popularity, adaptability, and verbal facility.
Taylor (15* pp. 31-32) said that a leader must have
seven, qualifications; they are above average of the group
in mental ability, broad interest and abilities, communi-
cation skills, maturity, motivational strength, social
skills, and administrative abilities.
Although research has shown that personality traits
do determine to a great extent the behavior of an in-
dividual , the situational surroundings of that indi-
vidual are factors that must be considered. Hemphill
(3) has indicated in his studies that traits or personal
factors reliably mart if est their actions only when in
interaction with situational factors. Stogdill (1J+)
also indicated that when personality traits are the only
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Wells, Weldon Stanley. A Study of Personality Traits, Situational Factors, and Leadership Actions of Selected School Maintenance Supervisors, dissertation, January 1964; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc164176/m1/33/?rotate=270: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .