Personal Traits of Leaders

This paper examines the relationship between leaders' personal traits or leadership traits, creativity, engagement, work performance, and innovative behavior in several Vietnamese universities. The findings aim to help university administrators refine their leadership qualities and styles to enhance these traits and behaviors in their lecturers. Data were primarily collected through survey responses from a convenience sample of 95 instructors employed at Vietnamese universities. The partial least squares structural equation model was used to analyze the data, resulting in findings that supported one of the two proposed hypotheses while the other was unsupported. Due to time constraints, this study is limited to its small sample size. Future research should involve a larger sample size to improve the generalizability of the findings.