Strengths:
-Leader-centered focus on skills
-Accessible
-Expansive View
-Aligns with leadership education programs
Weaknesses:
-Too broad
-Weak predictive value
-Not necessarily applicable to other contexts
KATZ Three-Skills Approach:
-Technical Skills
-Human Relation Skills
-Conceptual Skills
Technical Skills:
-Working with things
-Hands-on abilities
-Specialized competencies
-Important at lower level management
Human Relation Skills:
-Working with people
-Important at all levels of management
Conceptual Skills:
-Working with Ideas
-Good with abstracts and hypotheticals
-Important at upper level management
Individual Attributes:
-General Cognitive Ability
-General Crystallized Ability
-Motivation
-Personality
General Cognitive Ability:
-Person's Intelligence
Crystallized Cognitive Ability: