Relationship between Talkativeness and Transformational Leadership among Management & Science University Students

Talkativeness is defined as talking a lot while a leadership trait refers to characteristics of a successful leader. Recent studies show lack of prove regarding the correlation of talkativeness and leadership trait among people. Hence, this research is a quantitative study which utilizes self-administered questionnaires to analyze the correlation of talkativeness and leadership traits among the students of Management & Science University. The data was collected using questionnaires which consist of 3 parts known are demographic survey, talkativeness survey and leadership traits survey. A total of 204 students from various faculties were randomly selected to participate in the survey. Data was entered on the SPSS version 17.0. The result obtained shows a significant correlation between talkativeness and leadership traits among Management & Science University students as the p-value is 0.01 which is less than 0.05. Talkativeness does effect on ability to be a leader. Thus, students should always practice more talking in order to create a better leader in the future.