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43 Skills ApproachDESCRIPTION Like the trait Approach we discussed in Chapter 2, the Skills Approach takes a leader-centered perspective on leadership. However, in the Skills Approach we shift our thinking from a focus on personality characteristics, which usually are viewed as innate and largely fixed, to an emphasis on Skills and abilities that can be learned and developed. Although personality certainly plays an integral role in leadership, the Skills Approach suggests that knowledge and abilities are needed for effective have studied leadership Skills directly or indirectly for a number of years (see Bass, 1990, pp. 97 109). However, the impetus for research on Skills was a classic article published by Robert Katz in the Harvard Business Review in 1955, titled Skills of an Effective Administra-tor. Katz s article appeared at a time when researchers were trying to identify a definitive set of leadership traits.

basic administrative skills: technical, human, and conceptual. Second, we discuss the recent work of Mumford and colleagues that has resulted in a new skills-based model of organizational leadership. 3. 3.1 . Skills Approach

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