Leadership Theory and Practice: Chapter 3 Introduction – Flashcards
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Katz (1955, p. 34) suggested that effective administration (i.e., leadership) depends on three basic personal skills:
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technical human conceptual
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knowledge about and proficiency in a specific type of work or activity.
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Technical skill
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knowledge about and ability to work with people.
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Human skill
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the ability to work with ideas and concepts
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conceptual skills
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skill-based model of Mumford's group has five components:
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competencies individual attributes leadership outcomes career experiences environmental influences
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the capacity to understand people and social systems
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social judgment skills
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means understanding the attitudes that others have toward a particular problem or solution.
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Perspective taking
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insight and awareness into how others in the organization function.
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Social perceptiveness
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the capacity to change and adapt one's behavior in light of an understanding of others' perspectives in the organization.
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Behavioral flexibility
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Three Components of the Skills Model
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Individual attributes Competencies Leadership Outcomes
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__________ is the accumulation of information and the mental structures used to organize that information. Such a mental structure is called a schema
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Knowledge
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can be thought of as a person's intelligence. It includes perceptual processing, information processing, general reasoning skills, creative and divergent thinking capacities, and memory skills.
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General cognitive ability
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intellectual ability that is learned or acquired over time. It is the store of knowledge we acquire through experience.
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Crystallized cognitive ability
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The competencies of the Skills Model
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Problem-Solving Skills Social Judgment Skills Knowledge
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4 Individual attributes of skills model
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General Cognitive Ability Crystallized Cognitive Ability Motivation Personality
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__________ represent factors that lie outside the leader's competencies, characteristics, and experiences. These environmental influences can be internal and external.
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Environmental influences
