Personality and leadership: Meta-analytic review of cross-cultural moderation, behavioral mediation, and honesty-humility.

We advance the trait approach to leadership by leveraging a large multinational database on leader emergence ( = 120 samples, = 32,579) and leader effectiveness ( = 116, = 42,487) to extend Judge et al.'s (2002) classic meta-analysis of Big Five personality and leadership. By testing novel hypotheses rooted in culturally endorsed implicit leadership theory and socioanalytic theory, we offer three unique insights.