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Universal Journal of Management Vol. 10(2), pp. 27 - 37
DOI: 10.13189/ujm.2022.100201
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Authentic Leadership in Relation to the Five Factor Model of Personality: A Study on School Principals in Greece
Ekaterini Damianou 1,*, Krinanthi E. Gdonteli 1, Vassilis Kakkos 2, Diamantina Pantazi 1, Georgios Kipreos 1
1 Department of Sport Management, University of Peloponnese, Greece
2 General Secretariat of Sports, Greece
ABSTRACT
Personality is considered an antecedent to leadership in all organizational contexts. Schools are an important organizational environment, with school leaders facing increasing challenges. Their personality affects the leadership style they employ. This research aims to delineate the relationship between the personality of school principals in Greece and authentic leadership, a leadership style that has emerged in the relevant literature as appropriate and desirable for schools. The study is the first to investigate the authentic leadership and the personality of all the public school principals in Greece, who appear to have received no training in any kind of leadership or managerial skills at a high percentage (70.7%). The BFI questionnaire was employed to unveil the personality factors, while the ALQ questionnaire was used to outline their authentic leadership. The results showed that the school principals in Greece are on a positive trajectory regarding their authentic leadership, with internalized moral perspective being the prevailing factor. Regarding their personality, conscientiousness and agreeableness are the strongest characteristics. Additionally, conscientiousness showed significant positive correlation with the authentic leadership facet of self-awareness and with authentic leadership as a single variable. This finding reinforces the perception that personality can affect leadership and implies that authentic leadership may emerge without targeted training in conscientious leaders, creating the circumstances to enhance it further. The results of the research can be useful for providing criteria when choosing school leaders and can be employed when making choices regarding their initial and ongoing training, especially if authentic leadership is selected and promoted as the appropriate leadership style for school principals in Greece, as this study purports.
KEYWORDS
Authentic Leadership, Big Five, Personality and Leadership, School Principals
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[1] Ekaterini Damianou , Krinanthi E. Gdonteli , Vassilis Kakkos , Diamantina Pantazi , Georgios Kipreos , "Authentic Leadership in Relation to the Five Factor Model of Personality: A Study on School Principals in Greece," Universal Journal of Management, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 27 - 37, 2022. DOI: 10.13189/ujm.2022.100201.
(b). APA Format:
Ekaterini Damianou , Krinanthi E. Gdonteli , Vassilis Kakkos , Diamantina Pantazi , Georgios Kipreos (2022). Authentic Leadership in Relation to the Five Factor Model of Personality: A Study on School Principals in Greece. Universal Journal of Management, 10(2), 27 - 37. DOI: 10.13189/ujm.2022.100201.