Chapter 3 Flashcards
Skills Approach (15 cards)
Environmental influences are factors in situations that lie outside the leader’s competencies, characteristics, and experiences. True or False?
True
Social judgment is an individual attribute in the skills model. True or False?
False
Mumford’s Skills Model of Leadership was designed to determine the competencies needed for effective leader performance. True or False?
True
The skills approach takes a _____________ on leadership, like the trait approach.
Leader-centered perspective
Leadership skills research attempts to
Identify competencies that can be acquired by leaders
Developed the Three Skill Model of leadership.
Correct answer:
Katz
At the upper-management level in an organization
Technical skills are less important than human skills
In Mumford’s Skills Model, social judgment skill is defined as
The capacity to understand people and social systems
Which of these statements about the skills approach is false?
- Describes leadership as something that is available to everyone
- It is applicable to leaders at all levels within the organization
- It clearly predicts how variations in social judgment and problem-solving skills affect performance
- Knowledge about and ability to work with people is important in this approach
It clearly predicts how variations in social judgment and problem-solving skills affect performance
In the skills model, which of these is a general cognitive ability?
Information processing
Which of the following attributes begins to decline in later adulthood?
- Personality
- Motivation
- Crystallized cognitive ability
- General cognitive ability
- Effectiveness
General cognitive ability
All of the following environmental influences are external except
- Slow Internet
- Traffic
- Computer network crash
- Unplowed parking lot
- Inexperienced followers
Inexperienced followers
The skills approach helps us best identify our
Strengths and weaknesses
Additional research completed by Mumford, Campion, and Morgeson used a four-skill model to assess cognitive, interpersonal, business, and strategic skills in managers at the junior and senior levels of an organization. The research findings in this study were most similar to
Katz’s hierarchical three-skills model
Which is not a strength of the skills approach?
- It is intuitively appealing
- Skills can be learned
- It has a high predictive value
- It is an expansive view of leadership
It has a high predictive value
