Exam 4: Contingency Theories in Leadership

Select a present or past manager. Which LPC leadership style is or was dominant for that manager? Using the Fiedler model (Exhibit 5.3), which situation number is the manager in? What is the appropriate leadership style for the manager in this situation? Does it match his or her style? How successful a leader is your manager? Do you think there is a relationship between the manager's leadership style and situation?

In the development-driven model:

What are the normative leadership theory leadership styles?

What are the differences between the time-driven model and the development-driven model?

Identify your manager's most commonly used path-goal leadership style. Would you say this is the most appropriate leadership style based on the situational factors? Explain.

Actual managers' complaints that the normative leadership model is too cumbersome with all of its questions:

The time-driven model is concerned with making effective decisions with minimum cost.

CEO Bill Gates is very powerful, yet well admired by his vice-presidents and other employees. Determine the situation number with its corresponding appropriate leadership style for Bill Gates. Select two answers.

A characteristic of followers that can substitute for leadership is:

One group of authors believes that Fiedler's contingency leadership model is the model best supported by research. However, a different author believes that it is the normative leadership model. Which model do you believe is best supported by research? Why?

A leadership model:

____ leadership models tell the user exactly which style to use in a given situation.

The growing cultural diversity of the workforce and the increasing globalization of the marketplace creates the need for leaders with multicultural backgrounds and experiences.

____ leadership is appropriate when the followers do not want autocratic leadership, have internal locus of control, and follower ability is high.

The manager went around to several employees asking them for suggestions on how to decrease theft. Which path-goal leadership style is the manager using in this situation?

The normative leadership model is not popular with managers because it is not based on research.

State the leadership continuum model major styles and variables.

State the major difference between behavioral and contingency leadership theories, and explain the behavioral contribution to contingency theories.

What is the primary difference between the contingency leadership model and the other leadership models (leadership, continuum, path-goal, and normative leadership)?

The first step for using the normative leadership model is to select a time-driven model or development-driven model.