Refer to the Scenario Below to Answer the Following Questions

question 111

Multiple Choice

Refer to the scenario below to answer the following questions.
Leading Change (Scenario)
Robert is vice-president of human resources at Dynamic Corporation. The company's president, Bill Fence, is retiring soon, and the board of directors has asked Robert to begin the search for a new president. Robert must carefully consider the skills and qualities that will be required to lead the company into the future. The past five years have been a period of relative stability for the industry, and Bill has done a good job of clarifying roles and guiding the organization toward established goals. Now, however,, the business environment is changing, and Robert knows that the next president will need to possess different qualities to effectively lead the company in the turbulent years to come. Robert reviews the various approaches to leadership in times of change.
-One approach that Robert considers is __________ leadership, where the leaders have a profound effect on followers and inspire them to transcend their own self-interests for the good of the organization.

• A) visionary
• B) transactional
• C) transformational
• D) situational
• E) transcendental

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Definitions:

When They Work

Situations or conditions under which specific strategies, processes, or efforts yield successful outcomes.

Flexible Work Arrangements

Work structures that allow employees to have varying schedules and locations, enhancing work-life balance.

Promote

To support or actively encourage a cause, venture, or individual to grow or to be recognized.

Contingency Factor

A variable that can alter the impact of a specific managerial action on organizational outcomes.