LibGuides: ED-7012: Week 4 Resources

Week 4 Resources

Northouse, P. G. (2021). Leadership: Theory and practice (9th ed.). SAGE.

Read Chapters 3 and 4.

These chapters explain that leadership is not a destination. It is a process of continual growth, experience, and even mistakes. Leadership continues to evolve, and various situations call for different skill sets, traits, and behaviors. This week’s chapter talks about leadership dispositions in conjunction with traits, skills, and behavioral leadership approaches.
Reflection is critical to developing effective leaders, as they challenge themselves and those they lead to be better tomorrow than they were today.

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Requisite Leader Behavioural Competencies for Sustainable Organisational Performance
Grobler, S. W., & du Plessis, Y. (2016). Requisite leader behavioural competencies for sustainable organisational performance. Acta Commercii, 16(1), 1–8.
This study proposes a framework of requisite leader behavioral competencies for sustainable organizational performance and to determine the interrelationship between leader behavior and organizational performance.
Skill
Spinks, N. (2008). Skill. In S. R. Clegg & J. R. Bailey (Eds.), International encyclopedia of organization studies (Vol. 1, pp. 1415-1418). SAGE.
This article talks about conceptualizations of skill. Furthermore, it utilizes different inquiry modes to establish the dimensions of skill in the organizational context.
Traits and Skills Theories as the Nexus Between Leadership and Expertise: Reality or Fallacy?
Germain, M.-L. (2012). Traits and skills theories as the nexus between leadership and expertise: Reality or fallacy? Performance Improvement, 51(5), 32–39.
Based on a research review on the trait theory of leadership and the concept of expertise, this article finds a convergence between leader and expert traits.