LEADERSHIP PROFILE OF LAWYER CANDIDATES IN KAZAKHSTAN
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.20319/pijtel.2017.12.6274Keywords:
‘Lawyer Personality’, Leadership Profile, Temperament, Behavioral Activation / Inhibition System, Locus Of Control, Brain Dominance, Multiple Intelligence, Career ValuesAbstract
There is a perception that lawyers differ from other professionals in a variety of ways. If ‘lawyer personality’ exists, we will attempt to explore the personality profile of Kazakhstani law students and predict their leadership skills. Understanding their strengths and weaknesses is an essential part of self-knowledge for leaders. The study examines the influence of 1) physiological (temperament and behavioral activation / inhibition system), 2) cognitive (brain dominance and intelligence), 3) personality (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and locus of control), and 4) morality (career values) factors on the development of leadership capacity of future lawyers. To investigate this issue in Kazakhstani educational environment we surveyed 150 students of Law Department from Suleyman Demirel University. The results demonstrated the evidence of the impact of law students’ personality on leadership capacity: they are transactional leaders, decisive and responsible, making others readily follow them and get the job done. Hopefully, the preferences that the students demonstrated in interpersonal /intrapersonal intelligence and their desire to satisfy their status , service, and social relationship needs in law career will facilitate their move from narcissistic transactional towards success for transformational servant leadership style.
References
Benziger, K . (2001) . Leveraging Your Brain’s Natural Lead to Achieve and Sustain Inner Balance. For the March/April Exponent .
Boardman, A .( 2014) Leadership for lawyers. Shark Free Waters blog .
Chan, K-Y, & Drasgow, F. (2001). Toward a theory of individual differences and leadership: Understanding the motivation to lead. Journal of Applied Psychology, 86, 481-498. https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.86.3.481
Cullen, R., & Polden, D (2007), Leadership: A Critical Skill for Lawyers, The Complete Lawyer.
Daicoff , S .(1997) Lawyer, know thyself: a review of empirical research on attorney attributes bearing on professionalism. American University Law Review .
Digman , J. M. (1990). Personality Structure: Emergence of the Five-Factor Model. Annual Review of Psychology, 41, 417-440. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.ps.41.020190.002221
Drakeley, R. (2004). Why Lawyers Aren’t Normal. CGR-business psychologists
Gardner, H. (1998). The Intelligences of Leaders. International Journal of Leadership in Education, 1:2, 203-206. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360312980010208
Janoff , S. (1991) The Influences of Legal Education on Moral Reasoning. 76 MINN. L. REV.193, 219-22 .
Johnson, A. M., Vernon, P. A. McCarthy, J. M., Molso , M., Harris, J. A.& Jang, K. J. (1998). Nature vs nurture: Are leaders born or made? A behavior genetic investigation of leadership style. Twin Research, 1, 216-223. https://doi.org/10.1375/twin.1.4.216
Judge, T. A., Bono, J. E., Ilies, R., & Gerhardt, M. W. (2002). Personality and leadership: A qualitative and quantitative review. Journal of Applied Psychology, 87, 530-541. https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.87.3.530
Martin J. Bohn, Jr.(1971) Psychological Needs of Engineering, Pre-Law, Pre-Med, and Undecided College Freshmen. 12 J.C. Student Personnel , 359.
Reich , S. (1976) California Psychological Inventory: Profile of a Sample of First- Year Law Students. 39 Psychol.Rep. 871,872-73 .
Richard , L (2015) . The Mind of The Lawyer Leader. Law Practice Magazine .Leadership issue.
Schneider, B., Paul, M. C., White, S. S., & Holcombe, K. M. (1999). Understanding high school student leaders, I: Predicting teacher ratings of leadership behavior. The Leadership Quarterly, 10, 609-636. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1048-9843(99)00038-7
Smither , J.W., London, M., & Richmond, K.R. (2005). The relationship between leaders' personality and their reactions to and use of multisource feedback: A longitudinal study. Group and Organization Management, 30, 181-210 https://doi.org/10.1177/1059601103254912
Stevens, R. (1973) . Law Schools and Law Students 59 Va L Rev 551.
Sultan, S., Khan, M., & Kanwal, F. (2017). Spiritual intelligence linking to leadership effectiveness : interceding role of personality traits. PEOPLE: International Journal of Social Sciences, 3 , 599-613
Tapp , J. , and Levine , F. (1974). Legal Socialization: Strategies for an Ethical Legality.Vol.27, No.1, by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. https://doi.org/10.2307/1227929
Wilson, S. D. and Mujtaba, B. G. (2007). The relationship between multiple intelligences, culture and diversity. International Business & Economics Research Journal, 6(8), 9-22.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright of Published Articles
Author(s) retain the article copyright and publishing rights without any restrictions.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
