Fiedler's Contingency Model of Leadership Has Made an Important and Lasting

question 89

Multiple Choice

Fiedler's contingency model of leadership has made an important and lasting contribution to the study of leadership because it:

• A)suggests that leaders tend to rely mainly on one style that is most consistent with their personality and values.
• B)discovered that effective leaders do not have a common set of competencies.
• C)is the only theory to adopt the implicit leadership perspective.
• D)is the only leadership theory to adopt a contingency approach.
• E)was the first theory to recognize the existence of leadership substitutes.

Understand the importance and application of probability density functions.

Know the concept and calculation of a standard normal distribution.

Distinguish between continuous and discrete random variables.

Grasp the relationship between standard deviation values and the shape of a normal curve.

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