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101. List which leadership models are prescriptive and descriptive, and explain why they are classified as such.
102. Explain substitutes and neutralizers of leadership.
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103. What is the difference between a theory and a model?
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leadership style for a given situation based on their own judgment.
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104. What contingency leadership variables are common to all of the theories?
105. How does the global economy relate to contingency leadership?
106. What are the two contingency leadership theory leadership styles?
107. Do the three situational favorableness factors of the contingency leadership model (Exhibit 4.3) fit in only one of the
three variables (follower, leader, situation) of all contingency leadership variables (Exhibit 4.1)? Explain.
108. What is the difference in the outcomes of the contingency leadership and the continuum leadership models and that
of the path-goal model?
109. What are the three subordinate and environmental situational factors of the path-goal model?
110. What are the path-goal theory leadership styles?
111. What are the normative leadership theory leadership styles?
112. What is the primary difference between the contingency leadership model and the other leadership models
(leadership, continuum, path-goal, and normative leadership)?
113. What are the three substitutes for leadership?
114. What are the differences between the time-driven model and the development-driven model?
115. Tania, the manager, oversees the assembly of mass-produced pens. She has the power to reward and punish, and is
viewed as a highly demanding manager.
Use Exhibit 4.3 and determine the situation number along with its corresponding appropriate leadership style for this
manager. Select two answers. Is this the appropriate style? Support your answer.
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
e. 5
g. 7
h. 8
A. Task-Oriented
B. Relationship-Oriented
116. Shawn, the manager, is from the human resources department. He helps the other departments write job
descriptions. Shawn is viewed as not understanding the various departments. Employees tend to be rude in their dealings
with Shawn.
Use Exhibit 4.3 and determine the situation number along with its corresponding appropriate leadership style for Shawn.
Select two answers. Is this the appropriate style? Support your answer.
a.1
b.2
c.3
d.4
e.5
f.6
g.7
h.8
A.Task-Oriented
B.Relationship-Oriented
117. “Helen, I like your report. Send it to the VP right away.”
Use Exhibit 4.5 to determine which number this manager would rate on the Leadership Continuum Model. Support your
answer.
Autocratic
Participative
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
e. 5
f. 6
g. 7
118. The manager went around to several employees asking them for suggestions on how to decrease theft.
Use Exhibit 4.5 to determine which number this manager would rate on the continuum leadership model. Support your
answer.
Autocratic
Participative
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
e. 5
f. 6
g. 7
p. 118, exhibit 4.5
119. “Tony, I selected you to take on the new assignment. Do you have any questions about this assignment?”
Use exhibit 4.5 to determine which number this manager would rate on the Leadership Continuum Model. Support your
answer.
Autocratic
Participative
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
e. 5
f. 6
g. 7
p. 118, exhibit 4.5
120. A manager has an employee who has been coming in late for work. The manager has decided to get the employee to
get to work on time.
Use Exhibit 4.7 to identify the appropriate leadership style for this situation. Support your answer.
a.
Directive
b.
Supportive
c.
Participative
d.
Achievement-oriented
121. A manager has decided to give a new task to an employee who tends to be insecure and may feel threatened by
taking on a new task.
Use Exhibit 4.7 to identify the appropriate leadership style for this situation. Support your answer.
a.
Directive
b.
Supportive
c.
Participative
d.
Achievement-oriented
Moderate
p. 120, exhibit 4.7
Application
122. A manager has a new task, and he is not sure how it should be done. Employees are experienced and like to be
involved.
Use Exhibit 4.7 to identify the appropriate leadership style for this situation. Support your answer.
Moderate
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a.
Directive
b.
Supportive
c.
Participative
d.
Achievement-oriented
123. The quarter just ended and the sales team easily met the quota. The manager has strong position power and has
decided to increase the quota to make the job more challenging.
Use Exhibit 4.7 to identify the appropriate leadership style for this situation. Support your answer.
a.
Directive
b.
Supportive
c.
Participative
d.
Achievement-oriented
Moderate
p. 120, exhibit 4.7
Application
124. Select a present or past manager. Which LPC leadership style is or was dominant for that manager? Using the Fiedler
model (Exhibit 4.3), 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?
Challenging
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Moderate
p. 120, exhibit 4.7
Application
125. Using the leadership continuum model (Exhibit 4.5), identify your manager’s most commonly used leadership style
by number and description. Would you say this is the most appropriate leadership style based on the leader, the followers,
and the situation? Explain.
126. 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.
127. Recall a specific decision you or your boss has or had to make. Is or was the decision time-driven or development-
driven? Using Exhibit 4.9 or 4.10, select the appropriate participation style for the situation. Be sure to state the questions
you answered and how (H or L) you answered each.
128. Describe the type of leader that you want to be on the job. Identify specific behavior you plan to use as a leader. You
may also want to identify behavior you will not use.
129. Identify your present or past manager. Can the characteristics of followers, task, and/or the organization substitute for
this leader? In other words, is his or her leadership necessary? Explain.
130. Do you agree with Fiedler’s belief that people have one dominant leadership style and cannot change styles? Explain.
131. Do you believe that more managers today are using more boss- or subordinate-centered leadership styles?
132. Do you agree that time is an important situational factor to consider in selecting a leadership style for the situation?
Explain.
133. The normative leadership model is the most complex. Do more variables improve the model?
134. 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?
135. Which contingency leadership theory do you think is the best?
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136. Which contingency leadership theory do you actually plan to use, and how? If you don’t plan to use any, give a
detailed reason for not wanting to use any of the models.
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137. Production manager. You are an experienced competent manager of a production department. A new potential
customer offered to buy a large quantity of your product for a reasonable price. The offer is open for a few days, which
Students’ answers will vary.
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gives you time for input into the decision if you want it. To fill the new order, your employees would have to work nights
and weekends for three weeks. The company has no union and cannot force employees to work overtime. However, your
department members work well together, they have a very good performance record, and they like to participate in
decision making. Which primary leadership style would you use to make the decision to take the order or not?
Step 1: Which model should you use? (_____ time-driven _____ development-driven)
Step 2: Which questions in your text’s normative model (Exhibit 4.9 or 4.10) did you answer and how? (H = high, L =
low, NA = not answered/skipped)
1.
H L or NA
3.
H L or NA
5.
H L or NA
7.
H L or NA
2.
H L or NA
4.
H L or NA
6.
H L or NA
Step 3: Which leadership style is the most appropriate?
_____ decide _____ consult individually _____ consult group _____ facilitate _____ delegate
138. Fast-food manager. As a fast-food manager, you have a high turnover rate. You need to hire two new employees
soon as you are short-handed now. You have five applicants. Your employees are the typical high school students who
work part time and then eventually quit for better jobs, or when they finish school, get full-time jobs or to go on to
college.
Step 1: Which model should you use? (_____ time-driven _____ development-driven)
Step 2: Which questions in your text’s normative model (Exhibit 4.9 or 4.10) did you answer and how? (H = high, L =
low, NA = not answered/skipped)
1.
H L or NA
3.
H L or NA
5.
H L or NA
7.
H L or NA
2.
H L or NA
4.
H L or NA
6.
H L or NA
Step 3: Which leadership style is the most appropriate?
_____ decide _____ consult individually _____ consult group _____ facilitate _____ delegate
1.
3.
5.
7.
2.
4.
6.
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139. “Here is list of holidays you can get paid for. Tania, you get seven paid, so you can pick the ones you want.”
Use exhibit 4.5 to determine which number this manager would rate on the Leadership Continuum Model. Support your
answer.
Autocratic
Participative
a.1
b.2
c.3
d.4
e.5
f.6
g.7
140. Identify the one contingency leadership model you prefer to use on the job, and state why.