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