Your Company's HR Director Is a Believer in Trait Theories

Multiple Choice

Your company's HR director is a believer in trait theories of leadership.He believes that he can differentiate leaders from non-leaders by focusing on personal qualities and characteristics.You want to help shed some light on this perspective. You should inform your HR director that research efforts show that traits do:

A) a better job predicting the emergence of leaders and the appearance of leadership than actually distinguishing between effective and ineffective leaders.
B) a better job distinguishing between effective and ineffective leaders than actually predicting the emergence of leaders and the appearance of leadership.
C) not provide any useful input into the prediction of leadership behaviour.
D) not provide any useful input into the prediction of leadership tendency or emergence.