SKILL APPROACH

Question 1

Generell

Answer 1

• Most famous researcher of this Model was called Katz
• Most important is the leaders flexibility.
• In 1950 the principle approach was introduced and was adapted by the extendend approach in the 1990s which took a shift from stable personality traits to learnable skills

Question 2

Principle Approach: 3 Skills (Katz, Skills of an effective Administrator)

Answer 2

1. Technical Skill: Knowledge about a special type of work -> deals with things
2. Human Skill: Interpersonal expertise -> deals with people
3. Conceptual Skill: Ability to work with proposals and concepts -> deals with ideas

Question 3

Principle Approach: 3 Hierarchy levels

Answer 3

SKILLS NEEDED

_Top Managemen_t: Technical, Human, Conceptual

Middle Management: Technical, Human, Conceptual

Supervisory Management: Technical, Human, Conceptual

Question 4

Leadership capability approach

capability model (Mumford, Zaccaro, Harding)

Answer 4

1. individual attributes required for this model:

• general cognitive capability - intelligence, way to deal with information
• cristallized cognitive ability – learning over time from experience
• motivation – willingness, dominance, commited to social good of organization, contains a little bit of frustration
• personality of the leader – being authentic, emotionally skilled, open and tolerant

2. competencies of the leader required for this model:

• problem solving skill - removing obstacles, creative and sustainable solutions for unusual organizational problems
• social judgement skill - behavioral flexibility, perspective taking, social perceptiveness, understanding people
• knowledge / know how – expert power, defining complex problems and attempting to solve them

3. leadership outcome:

• Effective problem solving - originality in problem solving, solvin problems in an unique an logical way
• Leader’s performance - succesful or not?

Career experience (trainings, hands-on experience, mentoring e.g.) influences individual attributes and competencies. The more experience I get the better my competencies will be.

Environmental influence affects individual attributes, competencies and leadership outcome. That can be factors like technology, follower quality and so on. Even things like economic, political and social issues are influencing every of the three bulletpoints.

Question 5

Strengths & Weaknesses of the Skill Aproach

Answer 5

Pros:

• Focus on obtainable skills
• Conceptualized structure for leaders
• Intuitively appealing
• Extensive view of leadership

Cons:

• Predominantly based on army data
• Beyond boundaries of leadership
• Weak in predictive value
• claims not to be a trait model when individual attributes are trait-like