Skills for Managers in the 21st Century

DESCRIPTION OF THE TOOL USED:

Personality traits were assessed using 16PF (7^thedition developed by Raymond Cattell). This questionnaire consisted of 187 questions. There were 16 primary personality factors, which emerged from the questionnaire, and four global or secondary factors derived from the combination of these primary factors. The primary and global factors were bipolar in dimension. These eight second-order factor scales were referred to as— Extraversion, Anxiety, Toughness, Independence, Control, Adjustment, Leadership and Creativity. Each scale score was interpreted as being low scores direction versus high score direction. In the ‘Extroversion scale’, low scores described introversion and high scores extroversion. In the ‘Anxiety scale’, low scores described low anxiety and high scores high anxiety. In the ‘Tough poise scale’, low scores described tender-minded emotionality and high scores described tough poise. In the ‘Independence scale’, low scores described subduedness and high scores independence. In ‘Control’ low scores described low rule consciousness and unorganized personality and high scores described perfectionism. In ‘Leadership’ low scores described poor leadership skills and high scores described high leadership skills. In ‘Adjustment’ low scores described poor adjustment and high scores described good adjustment skill. In ‘Creativity’ low scores described poor creativity and high scores described good out of box thinking. For the study the data was segregated into 3 categories namely High (score 8 -10), Average (4 to 7.9), Low (0 to 3.9).