Contingency Leadership Theories
Learning Outcomes
After studying this chapter, you should be able to:
1. State the major difference between behavioral and contingency leadership
theories, and explain the behavioral contribution to contingency theories.
p. 152
2. Describe the contingency leadership theory variables. p. 152
3. Identify the contingency leadership model styles and variables. p. 154
4. State the leadership continuum model major styles and variables. p. 159
5. Identify the path-goal leadership model styles and variables. p. 161
6. State the normative leadership model styles and the number of variables.
p. 165
7. Discuss the major similarities and differences between the behavioral and
contingency leadership theories. p. 171
8. Compare and contrast four major differences among the four contingency
leadership models. p. 171
9. List which leadership models are prescriptive and descriptive, and explain
why they are classified as such. p. 173
10. Explain substitutes and neutralizers of leadership. p. 173
11. Define the following key terms (in order of appearance in the chapter):
leadership model
contingency leadership model
leadership continuum model
path-goal leadership model
normative leadership model
prescriptive leadership models
descriptive leadership models
substitutes for leadership
