Exam 3: Skills Approach

Which of the following attributes begins to decline in later adulthood?

Mumford's skills model of leadership was designed to determine the competencies needed for effective leader performance.

Technical skills grow in importance as one moves up the managerial hierarchy.

There are two main models in the skills approach,Katz's three skill approach and Mumford et al.'s skills model.Compare these two models by describing two similarities and two differences between these models.

Who developed a capability model that includes individual attributes,competencies,and leadership outcomes?

According to Katz's three skill model,human skills are important at all levels of management.

What best explains the comparison of the skills approach to sports such as golf and tennis?

A chief operating officer of the company who applies the level of administrative skills to the degrees delineated in Katz's model ______.

In the skills model,what is the difference between general cognitive ability and crystallized cognitive ability?

Which of the following is not an example of an internal environmental influence that can affect leadership outcomes?

Using Mumford et al.'s skills model,name and briefly describe two types of problem-solving skills and two types of social judgment skills used by leaders to solve complex organizational problems.

The two leadership outcomes outlined in the skills model are ______.

Skills approach helps us best identify our ______.

According to Katz,the most important leadership skills for lower-levels of management are ______.

The environmental influences listed are all internal with the exception of ______.

The abilities that help a leader to work effectively with subordinates,peers,and superiors to accomplish the organizational goal.

All of the following environmental influences are external except ______.

Which of the following problem-solving skills can best be described as the ability to define noteworthy issues or significant problems affecting the organization?

The structure of the skills approach is ______.

Which skills model competency consists of creating a schema for learning and organizing data?