Your Company's HR Director Is a Believer in Trait Theories

Your company's HR director is a believer in trait theories of leadership. He believes that he can differentiate leaders from non-leaders by focusing on personal qualities and characteristics. The HR director plans to promote Lawrence, a highly extroverted manager with a great deal of ambition and energy. Furthermore, the president of the company is preparing to retire, and the HR director is searching for her replacement. He asks for your expertise in helping him to apply trait theory to leadership selection within your company.
-You explain that research efforts at isolating leadership traits have ________.

A) identified six leadership traits that predict leadership
B) been supportive of the Big Five leadership traits predicting leadership
C) shown that conscientiousness does not help much in predicting leadership
D) identified emotional stability as the most strongly related trait to leader emergence
E) been more focused on developing contingency theories and replacing trait theories