Skills of an Effective Administrator

Although the selection and training of good administrators is widely recognized as one of American industry’s most pressing problems, there is surprisingly little agreement among executives or educators on what makes a good administrator. The executive development programs of some of the nation’s leading corporations and colleges fi a tremendous variation in objectives.

At the root of this difference is industry’s search for the traits or attributes which will objectively identify the “ideal executive” who is equipped to cope effectively with any problem in any organization. As one observer of U.S. industry recently noted:

The assumption that there is an executive type is widely accepted, either openly or implicitly. Yet any executive presumably ...