Date of Degree

5-2020

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Program

Education

Advisor

Noah Kasraie

Advisor

Mark Teachout

Advisor

David Vequist

Abstract

To fill a gap of leadership research in the public sector, conducted in a municipal government department, in a southwestern United States city of over 1,000,000 residents, this quantitative survey research examined the relationships between 66 observer ratings (response rate of 46.15% from a sample of 143 participants) of a department director’s level of the Big Five personality traits, measured by the NEO Five-Factor Inventory-3 (NEO-FFI-3), and transformational leadership as measured by the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire 5X (MLQ 5X). Demographic data was collected to examine potential relationships between the NEO-FFI-3 and MLQ 5x ratings. To compare the self-other ratings, the department director also completed the NEO-FFI-3, the MLQ 5X, and the demographic questionnaire. The research found moderate self-other agreement between the department director’s self and observer ratings of the NEO-FFI-3 and the MLQ 5X. While no significant correlations were found between the observer ratings of the NEO-FFI-3 and the MLQ 5X, significant correlations were found between a number of observer demographics and their observer ratings of the NEO-FFI-3 and some of the observer demographic variables predicted some of their ratings of the NEO-FFI-3 constructs. Measured by Cronbach’s alpha coefficients, the NEO-FFI-3 and the MLQ 5X both proved to be reliable instruments within this study.

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