PSYC-3450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Job Performance, Peter Principle, Deductive Reasoning
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Emphasis on skills and abilities that can be learned and developed. The ability to apply knowledge and competencies to accomplish a set of goal and objectives by in uencing others. #1 cognitive complexity, most important at middle and top management levels of management. Leaders need all three skills, - but relative importance changes based on level of management. The charming but not brilliant nd that the job gets too bug and the problems too complex to get by on interpersonal skills - mccall & lombardo, 1983. Anything that works will be used in progressively more challenging applications until it fails . People rise to the level of their incompetence . Research studies (1990s) goal: to identify the leadership factors that create exemplary job performance in an organization. Emphasizes the capabilities that make e ective leadership possible rather than wait leaders do. Capability model: examines relationship between a leader"s knowledge and skills and the leaders performance.