A LEADERSHIP SKILLS STRATAPLEX: LEADERSHIP SKILL REQUIREMENTS ACROSS ORGANIZATIONAL LEVELS.

Abstract

The article focuses on the leadership skills required across organizational levels. Leadership skill requirements across organizational levels can be usefully described using a strataplex. The term 'strataplex' is derived from the term 'strata' which comes from the word 'stratify' meaning having a number of layers, levels, or classes in an organized system, and the term 'plex' which comes from the word complex, meaning divided into a specified number of parts. Thus, the term 'strataplex' captures the stratified and complex (composite) nature of the leadership skill requirement categories and their relationship with level in the organization. The leadership skills required at various organizational levels can be understood in terms of four general categories: Basic leadership skills, supervisory leadership skills, managerial leadership skills, and executive leadership skills. There are several hypotheses implicit in the leadership skill requirement strataplex. First, it suggests that basic leadership skills are the most fundamental of the leadership skills. Leadership skill requirements will vary by skill type such that basic leadership skill requirements will be the highest, followed by supervisory, managerial, and executive leadership skills respectively. The second hypothesis states that overall leadership skill requirements will be positively related to job level.

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