LEAD chapter 3
The skills approach framework ______.
Can be applied at all levels of leadership
You recently received a promotion to a higher level of management within your organization. This is your third promotion with your department. Using Mumford's skills model, what best represents this type of promotion and its outcomes?
Career experiences
The ideas and mental abilities that people learn through experiences can best be described as _____.
Crystallized cognitive ability
By including such a large number of components, the skills approach and its models are criticized for ______.
the range of skills extending beyond the boundaries of leadership.
Which of the following is a competency in Mumford's skills model?
Knowledge
Which is not a social judgment skill?
Knowledge acquisition
Leadership skills are defined in the chapter as ___.
Knowledge and competencies to accomplish goals
The skills approach takes a ____ on leadership, like the trait approach.
Leader-centered perspective
Tamika uses her ability to sense and perceive her staff's emotions every day to help them feel comfortable in the workplace. She is very knowledgeable about day-to-day operations and also is quite successful at anticipating problems and sharing ideas for improvements up the chain of command. Applying Katz's skills model, at what level of management is Tamika?
Middle management
The research Katz completed for his article describing the skills of an effective administrator _____.
was qualitative research
Human skills are about working with _____.
People
What best explains the comparison of the skills approach to sports such as golf and tennis?
People can improve their skills through practice and instruction.
Which of the following problem-solving skills can best be described as the ability to define noteworthy issues or significant problems affecting the organizaiton?
Problem definition
Which of the following presents a competency-based approach to leadership?
Skills approach
____ are what leaders can accomplish, whereas ___ are who leaders are.
Skills, traits
According to Katz's three skill model, human skills are important at all levels of management.
True
Mumford's research studied military personnel rather than business leaders.
True
Mumford's skills model of leadership was designed to determine the competencies needed for effective leader performance.
True
Skills approach provides a structure consistent with leadership education programs.
True
The skills approach suggests that many individuals have the potential for leadership.
True
Abby is a gifted communicator in her club and has a talent for verbally articulating what the future can hold for the members. According to Mumford's nine key problem solving skills, which is Abby demonstrating?
Visioning/sensemaking
All of the following environmental influences are external except ____.
inexperienced followers
The breadth of the skills approach, which includes motivation, critical thinking, and personality, ______.
is considered a weakness of this approach
Which of these statements about the skills approach is false?
it clearly predicts how variations in social judgment and problem-solving skills affect performance
The skills approach is _____.
not suitable for application across leadership contexts
Technical skills are the _____.
Ability to work with things
Katz describes human skills as ____.
Being aware of the perspective of others on issues.
Social judgment is considered an individual attribute in the skills model.
False
Technical skills grow in importance as one moves up the managerial hierarchy.
False
The problem-solving component of the skills model ____.
Demonstrates ability to construct organizational solutions
Social judgment competencies descrbed in Mumford et. al.'s skills model are similar to skills in this framework.
Emotional intelligence
Crystallized cognitive ability regers to one's innate intellectual ability or intelligence.
False
Which of the following problem-solving skills can best be described as the ability to anticipate the implications of executing a plan?
Forecasting
The classic article "skills of an effective administrator" by Katz was published in the _____.
Harvard Business Review
Leadership skills research attempts to ______.
Identify competencies that can be acquired by leaders
The basic premise of the skills approach is to _____.
Identify the skills of leaders
Mumford's skills model includes which of these main components?
Individual attributes
Which part of the skills model supports people as they apply their leadership competencies?
Individual attributes
General cognitive ability is similar to which of the five leadership traits in this text?
Intelligence
Who developed the three skill model of leadership?
Katz
According to Katz, the most important leadership skills for lower- levels of management are ____.
Technical and human skills
According to Katz's skills model, which two skills are most important for supervisory - (low_) level managers to be successful leaders?
Technical skill and human skill
Within an organization, the employees in the information technology department are crucial for the success of the organization due to their _____.
Technical skills
At the upper-management level in an organization, ____.
Technical skills are less important than human skills.
The individual attributes factor in the skills model suggests ____.
That the skills model is not just a competency-based model
Research data on Mumford et al.'s model was tested on military personnel. Which of the following is true?
The model cannot be effectively applied to leadership skills in a startup businesses
The main goal of Mumford et al.'s research was _____.
To explain the elements of effective performance
Individual leader attributes can affect the leader's skills, but it is the _____ themselves that are most important in addressing organizational problems.
skills
Skills approach helps us best identify our ____.
strengths and weaknesses
