Chapter 3
In the ______________________ approach, we shift our thinking from a focus on personality characteristics, which usually are viewed as innate and largely fixed, to an emphasis on skills and abilities that can be learned and developed.
Skills
Career experience is a strong influence on a leader's competencies.
True
Mumford's Skills Model of Leadership was designed to determine the competencies needed for effective leader performance.
True
The skills approach suggests that many individuals have the potential for leadership.
True
Knowledge about and the ability to work with people is:
Human Skills
The skills approach is leader-centered perspective that emphasizes the competencies of leaders. It is best represented in the early work of ______________ (1955) on the three-skill approach and the more recent work of Mumford and his colleagues (Mumford, Zachary, Harding, et al., 2000), who initiated the development of a comprehensive skills model of leadership.
Katz
Bill is in charge of hiring a new manager for the first shift on the production line. According to Katz's model, Bill should be looking for a person with:
Knowledge
The skills approach takes a ___________ on leadership, like the trait approach.
Leader-centered perspective
What explains the comparison of the skills approach to sports such as golf and tennis?
People can improve their skills through practice and instruction.
_______________ are what leaders can accomplish, whereas _____________ are who leaders are.
Skills; traits
Knowledge about and proficiency in a specific type of work or activity is:
Technical Skills
Katz's conceptual model based on his own research and observations is called the:
Three-Skill Approach
The ability to work with ideas is:
Conceptual Skills
technical skills grow in importance as one moves up Katz's managerial/leadership hierarchy.
False
Although personality certainly plays and integral role in leadership, the skills approach suggests that knowledge and abilities are needed for effective leadership.
True
Environmental influences are factors in situations that lie outside the leader's competencies, characteristics, and experiences.
True
Human skills are important at all levels of management.
True
Mumford's research studied military personnel rather than business and organizational leaders.
True
Skills approach provides a structure consistent with leadership education programs.
True
The skills approach is relatively new and has not been widely used in training and development.
True
Social judgment is an individual attribute in the skills model.
False
The lack of high-speed Internet access in a company is an external environmental influence that can affect leadership outcomes.
False
The skills approach is not descriptive.
False
Crystallized cognitive ability refers to one's innate intellectual ability or intelligence
False
Motivation and personality fall within the competencies component of Mumford's skills model.
False
