Chapter 6 - contingency theory

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Fiedler contends that it makes sense to try to train leaders to adapt their leadership styles.

False - Because it is a personality theory, contingency theory does not advocate teaching leaders how to adapt their styles as a means to improve leadership in an organization.

Contingency theory suggests that a leader's style is far more important than the leadership context. T/F?

False - contingency is concerned with styles and situations it is about matching it to the situaiton

Select all the options that correctly complete this sentence: Using contingency theory, in a highly unstructured task,

* rules would be unclear. * there would usually be several ways to do something.

From the framework of contingency theory, cleaning the milkshake machine at McDonald's is not a good example of a structured task.

False

High LPCs are more motivated by task true or false?

False - high lpc is relationship motivated

Low LPCs have a primary need to relate to people and a secondary need to get the job done.

False - low LPS are task motivated

One problem with contingency theory is the lack of research to support it.

False - there is a lot of research to back up the contingency theory

Select all options that best characterize contingency theory.

Predictive - the contingency theory is predictive about the type of leadership that is best in certain contexts

People with low scores on the LPC work better in categories 1 and 2 than 4 and 5. T/F?

True

The validity and lack of correlation with other leadership measures of Fiedler's LPC Measure has been criticized. t/f?

True

According to contingency theory, no leader can be expected to perform well in every situation. T/F?

True - Contingency theory stresses that leaders are not effective in all situations.

Contingency theory is a leader-match theory. T/F?

True - it tries to match leaders to appropriated situations

Using contingency theory, in a highly structured task,

both high and low lpc leaders could perform effectively.

Select all the options that correctly complete this sentence: According to Fiedler, if a leader's style does not match a situation, the leader can

engage in situational engineering.

A low LPC leader would perform best in which of the following situations?

good leader-member relations, high structure, strong power


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