Skills Approach Leadership

Skills Approach

• • Leader Centered Competencies stressed Northouse, P. G. (2013). Leadership Theory and Practice. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc. (e.g. 6th ed.)

Katz

• • • Technical Human Conceptual Management level dependent.

Northouse, P. G. (2013). Leadership Theory and Practice. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc. (e.g. 6th ed.)

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Leaders aren’t born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Individual Attributes

Mumford Skills Approach

Competencies Leadership Outcomes General Cognitive Ability Crystalized Cognitive Ability Motivation Personality Problem-Solving Skills Social Judgment Skills Knowledge Effective Problem Solving Performance Northouse, P. G. (2013). Leadership Theory and Practice. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc. (e.g. 6th ed.)

Strengths

• • • • Learned skills are emphasized Available to all Maps how successful leadership can be achieved Provides a framework for leadership education Northouse, P. G. (2013). Leadership Theory and Practice. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc. (e.g. 6th ed.)

Weaknesses

• • • • Reaches into personality traits – Conflict management – Critical thinking Inconsistent in predicative value Too similar to trait approach Based on military data only Northouse, P. G. (2013). Leadership Theory and Practice. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc. (e.g. 6th ed.)