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A study which aimed to find out which personal attributes Coll students believed to be necessary in order to operate effectively in corporate positions of authority & responsibility. If some consensus concerning the traits necessary for corporate success did exist, interest was in the actual dimensions of such an executive stereotype. Students were asked to evaluate the relative importance of 30 traits & behavioral patterns, each derived from previously published res concerning executive role performers. The sample was composed of 309 undergraduate students at the State U of New York at Buffalo. Students were also asked to indicate area of academic specialization, sex, religious affiliation, father's income & postgraduate goals. It was found that students perceived the most important qualities necessary for corporate performance to be those concerning an executive's competence & maturity (acceptance of responsibility, desire for success) & his overt soc skill (ability to get along with peers & subordinates, ability to acquire the confidence of others). Technical ability & possession of a U degree were not rated as esp important. The characteristics deemed most important are quite similar to those described in existing & theoretical literature focusing on actual corporate role performers. Any stereotype which has emerged is also composed of highly desirable & laudable attributes. Students were particularly consistent in responding to dimensions believed to be most important for executive success; more disagreement surrounded those factors believed to contribute little to effective managerial behavior. Data also suggest that the most negative or unappealing stereotype of the effective executive may be held by those students from the highest SE backgrounds. E. Weiman.