Your company's hr director is a believer in trait theories of leadership. he believes that he can differentiate leaders from nonleaders by focusing on personal qualities and characteristics. the hr director plans to promote lawrence, a highly extraverted manager with a great deal of ambition and energy to the position of vp, manufacturing. he asks for your expertise in him to apply trait theory to leadership selection within your company. the director believes that because of his innate characteristics, lawrence will be highly effective at the company achieve its production goals. you advise the director against basing his decision purely on traits because
a) identified six leadership traits that definitely predict leadership.
b) been supportive of the big five leadership traits predicting leadership.
c) shown that conscientiousness does not much in predicting leadership.
d) identified emotional stability as the most strongly related trait to leader emergence.
e) been more focused on developing contingency theories and replacing trait theories.