The Correlates of Two Types of Leadership Motivation

personal, achievement, and self-worth. A segmentation analysis performed on 580 current or future employees, who combine their work with studying management at the University of Warsaw, revealed two groups that had traits related to effective leadership. The subjective feeling of satisfaction across three domains: personal relationships, work-related satisfaction, and self-worth, was compared between both groups with leadership trait profiles and peers with non-leadership trait profiles. Both groups with leadership trait profiles had a higher feeling of satisfaction in work/school relative to their peers. The leadership trait profile group with a high need for power, medium need for achievements and low need for affiliation had higher self-acceptance than peers, while the leadership group with a high need for power, need for achievement and need for affiliation had higher satisfaction with relationships than their peers. Participants in both leadership trait profile groups were divided based on their temperament and preferred working style. Although highly reactive individuals in both groups felt less satisfaction with work/school, this effect was completely canceled out for individuals with a working style matched to a leadership position in the group with a high need for affiliation and achievement. Implications of these findings for organizational practice are discussed.