Leadership - Chapter 12

Question 1

Fiedler’s Contingency Model

Answer 1

An early contingency leadership model which suggests that leader effectiveness depends on whether the person’s natural leadership style is appropriately matched to the situation.

Question 2

Implicit Leadership Theory

Answer 2

A theory stating that ppl evaluate a leader’s effectiveness in terms of how well that person fits preconceived beliefs about the features of effective leaders. Ppl tend to inflate the influence of leaders on org events.

Question 3

Leadership Substitutes

Answer 3

A theory identifying contingencies that either limit a leader’s ability to influence employees or make a leadership style unnecessary.

Question 4

Path Goal Leadership

Answer 4

A contingency theory of leadership based on the expectancy theory of motivation that relates several leadership styles to specific employees and situational contingencies.

Question 5

Situational Leadership Theory

Answer 5

A commercially popular but poorly supported leadership model stating that effective leaders vary their style with the readiness of followers:
telling, selling, participating, delegating.

Question 6

Transformational Leadership

Answer 6

A leadership perspective that explains how leaders change teams or orgs by creating, communicating, and modelling a shared vision for the team or org and inspiring to strive for that vision.