Exam 3: Contingency Approaches to Leadership

According to Fiedler's contingency model of leadership, if a leader uses negative concepts to describe the least preferred coworker, he or she is considered a _____.

The contingency approaches explain the relationship between leadership styles and effectiveness in specific situations.

In the context of using substitutes for leadership, which of the following factors tends to substitute for leader task orientation?

According to the _____ of leadership, the leader's responsibility is to increase subordinates' motivation to attain personal and organizational goals.

According to the path-goal theory of leadership, when an incorrect reward is given to a subordinate, directive leadership behavior is used to change this.

The situational theory of leadership focuses on the characteristics of leaders as the most important element of the situation.

According to the path-goal theory of leadership, the personal characteristics of followers, which is a situational contingency, includes factors such as:

The point of Hersey and Blanchard's situational theory of leadership is that subordinates vary in _____.

An important contribution of Fiedler's research on the contingency model of leadership is that it:

According to the situational theory of leadership, a leader with a _____ provides little direction or support because complete responsibility for decisions and their implementation is turned over to followers.

Linc's software development team has run into a problem. The tools that they are using are old and missing some functions that would speed up the development process. Linc can think of only one solution-buying new tools. Because the new development tools are so expensive, Linc called a meeting and asked everyone to suggest solutions that the company can afford. Linc will do what the group decides is the best solution. According to the Vroom-Jago contingency model of leadership, which leadership style is Linc using?

According to the path-goal theory of leadership, which of the following situational contingencies consists of the educational level of subordinates and the quality of relationships among them?

Which of the following things should leaders know in order to use Fiedler's contingency theory of leadership?

Zac has been promoted to team leader. His team consists of high school students who have never had jobs before. The procedures the workers need to follow are long and complicated. Based on Hersey and Blanchard's situational theory, which of the following leadership styles should he use?

Jonni is a certified accountant who works from home without any personal contact from the organization that employs her. Which of the following characteristics of followers substitutes for people-oriented leadership in Jonni's situation?

_____ refers to a theory meaning one thing depends on other things.

Which of the following behaviors is a meta-category that can be applied to leadership in a variety of situations and time periods?

According to Fiedler's contingency theory of leadership, in situations of moderate favorability, a relationship-oriented leader:

The _____ to leadership seek to delineate the characteristics of situations and followers and examine the leadership styles that can be used effectively.

A(n) _____ for leadership, which is a situational variable, makes the leadership style unnecessary or redundant.