Leadership (Chapter 3) SKILLS APPROACH
Exam Questions and answers
What is the Skills Approach to leadership? - ✅✅Still takes a leader-centered perspective on
leadership.
But emphasizes skills and abilities that can be learned and developed.
Vs. trait which your born with
This Chapter breaks into 2 sections - ✅✅1). Katz' 3 basic administrative skills:
- technical
- human
- conceptual
2). Mumford = skills-based model of organizational leadership.
Leadership Skills are defined as - ✅✅ability to use one's knowledge and competencies to accomplish
a set of goals or objectives
Technical skills are: - ✅✅knowledge about and proficiency in THINGS a specific type of work or
activity.
They include
-competencies in a specialized area
- analytical ability
- ability to use appropriate tools and techniques
For example, in a computer software company, technical skills might include knowing software
language and programming of computers
Human Skills are - ✅✅Ability to work with people.
, work effectively with followers, peers, and superiors to accomplish the organization's goals.
Human skills allow a leader to assist group members in working cooperatively as a group to achieve
common goals
They are quite different from technical skills, which have to do with working with thing
Management Skills Necessary at Various Levels of an Organization - ✅✅Higher you are = human and
conceptual
lower you go= technical and human
Conceptual skills - ✅✅conceptual skills are the ability to work with ideas and concepts.
so the difference is - ✅✅Technical= works with THINGS
Human= works with PEOPLE
Conceptual= works with IDEAS (seeing the big picture)
Mumford = skills-based model of organizational leadership - ✅✅examines the relationship between a
leader's knowledge and skills (i.e., capabilities) and the leader's performance
What are Problem Solving Skills - ✅✅a leader's creative ability to solve new and unusual, ill-defined
organizational problem
What are the skills for Problem Solving? - ✅✅Ability to
- define significant problems
- gather problem information
- formulate new understandings about the problem
- generate prototype plans for problem solutions.
Exam Questions and answers
What is the Skills Approach to leadership? - ✅✅Still takes a leader-centered perspective on
leadership.
But emphasizes skills and abilities that can be learned and developed.
Vs. trait which your born with
This Chapter breaks into 2 sections - ✅✅1). Katz' 3 basic administrative skills:
- technical
- human
- conceptual
2). Mumford = skills-based model of organizational leadership.
Leadership Skills are defined as - ✅✅ability to use one's knowledge and competencies to accomplish
a set of goals or objectives
Technical skills are: - ✅✅knowledge about and proficiency in THINGS a specific type of work or
activity.
They include
-competencies in a specialized area
- analytical ability
- ability to use appropriate tools and techniques
For example, in a computer software company, technical skills might include knowing software
language and programming of computers
Human Skills are - ✅✅Ability to work with people.
, work effectively with followers, peers, and superiors to accomplish the organization's goals.
Human skills allow a leader to assist group members in working cooperatively as a group to achieve
common goals
They are quite different from technical skills, which have to do with working with thing
Management Skills Necessary at Various Levels of an Organization - ✅✅Higher you are = human and
conceptual
lower you go= technical and human
Conceptual skills - ✅✅conceptual skills are the ability to work with ideas and concepts.
so the difference is - ✅✅Technical= works with THINGS
Human= works with PEOPLE
Conceptual= works with IDEAS (seeing the big picture)
Mumford = skills-based model of organizational leadership - ✅✅examines the relationship between a
leader's knowledge and skills (i.e., capabilities) and the leader's performance
What are Problem Solving Skills - ✅✅a leader's creative ability to solve new and unusual, ill-defined
organizational problem
What are the skills for Problem Solving? - ✅✅Ability to
- define significant problems
- gather problem information
- formulate new understandings about the problem
- generate prototype plans for problem solutions.
