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Contingency Theories of Leadership

This activity contains 10 questions.

	What leadership model uses 18 pairs of contrasting adjectives to describe the co-worker an employee likes the least?   Leader participation model. Situational leadership model. Fiedler's contingency model. Path-goal model.

	Which of the following assumptions does Fiedler make?   A person can be taught to change his or her leadership style to fit any situation. A person's leadership style is always the same. A person's leadership style changes with each situation. Leaders are born, not made.

	According to the contingency model, relationship-oriented leaders function most effectively in which situations?   Moderate situations. Poor situations. All situations. High situations.

	Which leadership model identifies four leadership styles called telling, selling, participating, and delegating?   Fiedler's contingency model. Path-goal model. Leader participation model. Situational leadership model.

	In the situation leadership theory, what is the designation for people who are able but unwilling to do what the leader wants?   R2. R3. R1. R4.

	The leader's role is to facilitate and communicate In which of the four situational leadership styles?   Participating. Telling. Delegating. Selling.

	The "time driven model" is concerned with making leadership decisions _________________.   At minimum cost. That maximize employee outcomes. That cannot be changed. As quickly as possible.

	Which of the following is a leadership style in the Vroom leader participation model?   Position power. Decide. Directive. Selling.

	When constructing the path-goal model, House assumed that ________________.   Leaders are inflexible. Followers desire to succeed. Followers are apathetic. Leaders are flexible.

	In the path-goal model, _______________ leadership will lead to higher employee satisfaction when there is a substantive conflict within a workgroup.   Directive. Participative. Achievement-oriented. Supportive.

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