Exam 3: contingency Approaches to Leadership

The Vroom-Jago Contingency Model has five levels of subordinate participation in decision making, ranging from highly autocratic to highly democratic.

In the Hersey and Blanchard model, the telling style is based on high concern for both relationships and tasks.

According to Fiedler, in situations of "High-Task Low-Relationship", the leader's style should be the:

____________________ is a contingency models that focuses on varying degrees of participative leadership, and how each level of participation influences quality and accountability of decisions.

Path clarification means that the leader works with subordinates:

Kinko's, a nationwide copy center, has numerous locations and managers have limited personal interaction. This is an example of:

____________________ is a contingency approach to leadership in which the leader's responsibility is to increase subordinates' motivation by clarifying the behaviors necessary for task accomplishment and rewards.

Describe the Vroom-Jago Contingency Model.

The four types of leader behavior in the path-goal theory:

New research has continued to improve Fiedler's model, and it is still considered an important contribution to leadership studies. However, it's major impact may have been to stir other researchers to consider situational factors more seriously. Discuss.

According to the LPC scale, if the leader describes the least preferred coworker using positive concepts:

Recent studies have examined how substitutes (the situation) can be designed:

Highly educated, profession subordinates who know their tasks do not need a leader. This is an example of:

There is not one best way of leadership. Contingency means "it depends."

The degree of participation in the Vroom-Jago model depends on responses to eight questions which include all EXCEPT:

In today's multigenerational workplace, with people of widely different ages and Readiness levels working side-by-side, many leaders find that they have to use:

A leader who shared ideas with followers and facilitates decision making is using Hersey and Blanchard's ____.

To use Fiedler's Contingency Theory, a leader needs to know:

Hersey and Blanchard's ____________________ is an extension of the Leadership Grid focusing on the characteristics of followers as the important element of the situation, and of determining effective leader behavior.

The ability to use substitutes to fill leadership gaps is often advantageous to organizations.