MGT 6615 ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Information processing is part of which component of the skills model? - ✔✔General
cognitive ability
✔✔Openness, tolerance for ambiguity, and curiosity are expressions of which individual
attribute in the skills model? - ✔✔Personality
✔✔In the skills model, which of these is a crystallized cognitive ability? -
✔✔Comprehending complex information
✔✔In the skills model, environmental influences can be both internal and external. -
✔✔False
✔✔__________ refers to a leader's desire to express dominance and exert his or her
leadership. - ✔✔Motivation
✔✔A leader's ability to solve complex organizational problems depends primarily on
inherent traits, not skills. - ✔✔False
✔✔A strength of the skills approach is that - ✔✔It makes leadership available to
everyone
✔✔General cognitive ability refers to our ability to learn over a lifetime. - ✔✔False
✔✔Mumford's Skills Model includes which of these main components? - ✔✔Leadership
outcomes
✔✔Which of the following is a leadership outcome in the Skills Model? - ✔✔Problem
solving
✔✔In the skills model, general cognitive ability refers to - ✔✔Intelligence quotient
, ✔✔The abilities that help a leader shape organizational goals are - ✔✔Conceptual
Skills
✔✔All of the following environmental influences are internal, except - ✔✔Traffic
✔✔Employees who help other staff troubleshoot computer software problems are using
- ✔✔Technical Skills
✔✔Mumford's research studied business leaders. - ✔✔False
✔✔Human skills grow in importance as one moves up Katz's managerial/leadership
hierarchy. - ✔✔False
✔✔Three-Skills Approach (KATZ) - ✔✔Skills leaders can accomplish whereas traits are
innate
-Technical skills- knowledge about and proficiency in a specific type of work. Hands on.
-Human skills -knowledge about and ability to work with people. Abilities that help leader
work effectively with others
-Conceptual skills: ability to work with ideas and concepts. Leader will understand
companies' vision and goal well and intricacies involved. Creating a strategic plan is an
example.
✔✔Top Management
Middle Management
Supervisory Management
For Three Skills Approach - ✔✔Top Management: Technical< Human =Conceptual
Middle Management: Technical=Human=Conceptual
Supervisory Management: Technical =Human> Conceptual
✔✔Skills-based Model - ✔✔Wanted to identify leadership factors that create exemplary
performance
-Five components: competencies, individual attributes, leadership outcomes, career
experiences, and environmental conflicts
✔✔The Five Components to the skill-based models - ✔✔1)Competencies: key factors to
effective performance
->problem-solving:
-Leader's creative ability to solve new and unusual organizational problems
-Include defining problems and constructing solutions
->Social judgment skills: capacity to understand people and social systems
-Delineated into:
a) Perspective taking
b) Social perceptiveness
✔✔Information processing is part of which component of the skills model? - ✔✔General
cognitive ability
✔✔Openness, tolerance for ambiguity, and curiosity are expressions of which individual
attribute in the skills model? - ✔✔Personality
✔✔In the skills model, which of these is a crystallized cognitive ability? -
✔✔Comprehending complex information
✔✔In the skills model, environmental influences can be both internal and external. -
✔✔False
✔✔__________ refers to a leader's desire to express dominance and exert his or her
leadership. - ✔✔Motivation
✔✔A leader's ability to solve complex organizational problems depends primarily on
inherent traits, not skills. - ✔✔False
✔✔A strength of the skills approach is that - ✔✔It makes leadership available to
everyone
✔✔General cognitive ability refers to our ability to learn over a lifetime. - ✔✔False
✔✔Mumford's Skills Model includes which of these main components? - ✔✔Leadership
outcomes
✔✔Which of the following is a leadership outcome in the Skills Model? - ✔✔Problem
solving
✔✔In the skills model, general cognitive ability refers to - ✔✔Intelligence quotient
, ✔✔The abilities that help a leader shape organizational goals are - ✔✔Conceptual
Skills
✔✔All of the following environmental influences are internal, except - ✔✔Traffic
✔✔Employees who help other staff troubleshoot computer software problems are using
- ✔✔Technical Skills
✔✔Mumford's research studied business leaders. - ✔✔False
✔✔Human skills grow in importance as one moves up Katz's managerial/leadership
hierarchy. - ✔✔False
✔✔Three-Skills Approach (KATZ) - ✔✔Skills leaders can accomplish whereas traits are
innate
-Technical skills- knowledge about and proficiency in a specific type of work. Hands on.
-Human skills -knowledge about and ability to work with people. Abilities that help leader
work effectively with others
-Conceptual skills: ability to work with ideas and concepts. Leader will understand
companies' vision and goal well and intricacies involved. Creating a strategic plan is an
example.
✔✔Top Management
Middle Management
Supervisory Management
For Three Skills Approach - ✔✔Top Management: Technical< Human =Conceptual
Middle Management: Technical=Human=Conceptual
Supervisory Management: Technical =Human> Conceptual
✔✔Skills-based Model - ✔✔Wanted to identify leadership factors that create exemplary
performance
-Five components: competencies, individual attributes, leadership outcomes, career
experiences, and environmental conflicts
✔✔The Five Components to the skill-based models - ✔✔1)Competencies: key factors to
effective performance
->problem-solving:
-Leader's creative ability to solve new and unusual organizational problems
-Include defining problems and constructing solutions
->Social judgment skills: capacity to understand people and social systems
-Delineated into:
a) Perspective taking
b) Social perceptiveness
