What Is the Basic Assumption of Situational Approaches to Leadership

question 45

Multiple Choice

What is the basic assumption of situational approaches to leadership?

• A)Increasing worker job satisfaction through considerate leadership will get the best results.
• B)Initiating structure for employees so they know exactly what needs to be done will be most effective.
• C)The appropriate leader style will vary from one set of circumstances to another.
• D)Effective leaders can be identified by certain traits.
• E)Some factors make leader behavior unnecessary.

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Definitions:

F-test Statistic

A value used to determine if there are significant differences between the variances of two or more datasets.

MS

An acronym that can stand for Mean Square, a term used in ANOVA, indicating the average of the squares of differences (variances) within groups.

F-test Statistic

A statistical test used to compare two variances to see if they come from populations with equal variances.

One-way ANOVA

A statistical analysis used to determine if there are significant discrepancies in the average values of three or more independent groups.