*SKILL APPROACH*

Question 1

Skill Approach

Generell

Answer 1

• Most famous researcher of this Model:
  
  • Katz
• Most important:
  
  • leaders flexibility
• Shift from innate, stable personality characteristics (trait approach) to learnable skills

Question 2

Principle Approach: 3 Skills (Katz)

Answer 2

1. Technical Skill:

• knowledge about a special type of work deals with things

2. Human skill:

• knowledge and ability to work with people

3. Conceptual Skill:

• ability to work with ideas and concepts (creating a vision, plan)

Question 3

Capability Model: 5 Components (Mumford, Zacaro & Harding)

Answer 3

1. Individual Attributes

a) General cognitive ability:
* intelligence, way to deal with information
b) Crystallized Cognitive ability:
* learning over time from experience
c) Motivation:
* willingness, dominance, committed to social good of organization, contains a little bit of frustration
d) Personality:
* virtues, character

2. Competencies

a) Problem-solving skills:
* Removing obstacles, creative ability to solve new and unusual, ill-defined organizational problems in sustainable way
b) Social Judgement skills:
* perspective taking, social perceptiveness, behavioral flexibility, social performance understanding people
c) Knowledge:
* expert power, define and attempt to solve complex problems

3. Leadership Outcome

a) Effective problem solving:
* originality in problem solving, solving problems in an effective, unique and logical way -
b) Leader’s performance :
* successful or not?

4. Career Experiences

• influence Individual Attributes and Competencies

5. Environmental Influences

• influence all three Components

Question 4

Strengths & Weaknesses of the Skill Aproach

Answer 4

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