Your supervisor has been reading about self-leadership and is intrigued by the concept and wants to know more about it.Discuss how she can encourage self-leadership and which conditions would encourage self-leadership to be more likely to occur.

Students should distinguish between personal and situational factors that facilitate self-leadership.
Personal factors.As with other initiatives, behavior begins with the individual himself/herself.For example people who have higher levels of conscientiousness and extroversion are more likely to engage in self-leadership.This is also the case with individuals who have a positive self-concept and internal locus of control.
Situational factors.Employees who are given a high degree of autonomy tend to engage in self-leadership.Bosses can encourage their staff to engage in self-leadership when they empower rather than control them.Moreover, companies that emphasize continuous measurement of performance may lead staff to engage in more self-monitoring, which is an important component of self-leadership.