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According to House's revised path-goal theory, a leader's style should vary depending on which of the following?

A) Positional power
B) Environmental factors
C) Situational control
D) Organizational readiness
E) Leader-member relations

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A leader who focuses on clarifying employees' roles and task requirements and providing rewards and punishments contingent on performance is called a transformational leader.

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Adaptive, flexible organizational cultures are more likely to foster transformational leadership than bureaucratic ones.

The approach to leadership that suggests that effective leadership behavior depends on the situation at hand is the ______ approach.

In Fiedler's contingency leadership model, the amount of influence a leader has in his or her immediate work environment is called his or her

In the contingency leadership model, a person's leadership orientation is measured on a questionnaire called the most preferred leader scale.

In assessing how much situational control he has, a manager should consider which of the following?

Managers' legitimate power allows them to hire, fire, reward, and punish.

Faisal is something of a cheerleader around his team.He describes the great things he knows the group can accomplish, is quick to compliment the work of his staff, and is enthusiastic about their successes.According to revised path-goal theory, Faisal is using a(n) ______ leadership style.

______ power results from one's specialized knowledge.

The University of Michigan Leadership Model identified two leadership styles: job-centered and employee-centered.

Charismatic leadership is now considered part of ______ leadership.

DeAndre leads a task force developing specifications for a new customer database to be used by several departments.DeAndre is an IT supervisor, but most of the others are directors of other departments.At the first meeting, a few of them asked him questions he couldn't answer.According to the contingency model, DeAndre's situational control likely

All of the following are tips from Peter Drucker for improving leadership except which?

The path-goal leadership model is a contingency approach to leadership.

A strategy for staying ahead in the workplace of tomorrow is to focus on developing very specialized skills.

House's revision of his theory puts more emphasis on the need for leaders to foster

A transactional leader is most similar in focus to a

_______ is about coping with complexity and ______ is about coping with change.

According to GLOBE research, a perfectionist leader is the most universally disliked across countries.