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Leadership Traits and Skills

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After studying this chapter, you should beable to:

Understand how leader traits and skills arerelated to effective leadership.

Understand the types of research methodsused to study leadership traits and skills.

Understand what traits and skills are mostrelevant for effective leadership.

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Understand how the relevance of a trait or skilldepends on the situation.

Understand the traits and skills that cause

some people to derail in their managerialcareers.

Understand the limitations of the traitapproach.



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Understand how leader traits andskills are related to effective

leadership


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Trait

Values Self Concepts

Skill

Competency



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Understand the types of researchmethods used to study leadership

traits and skills


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Emergent Leadership

Leadership Advancement

Current Leadership Effectiveness



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Emergent Leadership

Comparison studies

Laboratory

Observation



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Leadership Advancement

Longitudinal



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Current Leadership Effectiveness

Survey



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Understand what traits and skillsare most relevant for effective

leadership


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Energy level and stress tolerance

Self-confidence

Internal locus of control

Emotional stability and maturity

Power motivation



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Personal integrity

Narcissism Achievement orientation

Need for Affiliation



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HIGH SCORES LOW SCORES

Extroversion

Conscientiousness Openness to

learning fromexperience

Neuroticism



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Technical skills

Interpersonal skills

Conceptual skills

Strategic management skills



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Emotional intelligence

Social intelligence

Ability to learn



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Understand how the relevance ofa trait or skill depends on the

situation


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Reviews of the literature confirm:

A leader with certain traits could be effective inone situation but ineffective in a differentsituation.

Furthermore, two leaders with a differentpattern of traits could be successful in the samesituation.



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Management level

External Environment



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Understand the traits and skillsthat cause some people to derail

in their managerial careers


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DERAILED SUCCESSFUL

Less capable at

handling pressure Angry outbursts

Inconsistentbehavior

Defensive aboutfailure

Calm

Confident

Predictable

Admitted mistakes



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DERAILED SUCCESSFUL

Cover up and blame

Lack of learningorientation

Focused on self-advancement

Accept

responsibility Learning orientation

Focused on tasksand subordinateneeds



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DERAILED SUCCESSFUL

Weak interpersonal

skills Insensitive

Technical skill

Strong interpersonal

skills Sensitive

Technical skills withsituational

experience



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Understand the limitations of thetrait approach


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Not theory guided

Linear relationships

Single traits and skills

Lacks contextual balance

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