A STUDY ON THE PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE OF THE PROFICIENT LEADER

Although the notion of ‘leadership’ has been widely used lately, opinions differ on aspects of its definition and content. We have chosen to discuss this topic aiming to define the psychological profile of the leader, in order to emphasize the complexity of the notion of ‘leadership’ and to distinguish between the concept of ‘leadership’ and that of ‘management’. We have applied 5 tests (including the focused attention test and the distributive attention test, analogic transfer intelligence test and CPI 260) to a group of 10 managers in order to check if they comply with the requirements and exigencies imposed by the position of manager and if they have the psychological profile of a proficient leader. By analysing the test results, we notice that all subjects meet the requirements imposed by the position of manager.