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Leadership in Public and Nonprofit Organizations, 4th Edition
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Leadership in Public and Nonprofit Organizations, 4th Edition

by Montgomery Van Wart, Paul Suino, Pamela S. Medina
April 2023
Intermediate to advanced
450 pages
15h 22m
English
Routledge
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CHAPTER 9Traits That Contribute to Leader Effectiveness

DOI: 10.4324/9781003261896-10

We have known for a long time that it is important to distinguish among different types of leadership competencies. There are relatively innate or long-term dispositions (traits), broadly applied learned characteristics (skills), and actual behaviors (concrete actions). Possession of certain traits and skills is an indicator of effectiveness; behaviors are the (present or past) indicators of the effective use of traits and skills in organizational contexts. The generic term “competency” generally refers to discrete abilities to accomplish a job, regardless of traits, skills, or behaviors.

Attempts to patch together specific lists of traits, skills, and behavioral ...

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