Chapter 5, Problem 9DQ

What are the distinguishing features of the transformational and the charismatic leader?

Why would start-up leaders need different leadership qualities than someone managing an established firm?

What do you think are the most important qualities in a leader? In a manager? Are your two lists mutually exclusive? Why?

What are the differences between the trait, behavioral, and situational approaches to defining leadership?

What is the nature of leadership and the leadership process?

Both the Ohio State University and University of Michigan leadership studies identified central leader behaviors. What are these behaviors, and how are they different from one another?

Blake and Moutons work with the Leadership Grid® identified several leadership types. What are they, and how does this leadership model look from the perspective of situation theories of leadership?

Identify and describe the three situational variables presented in Fiedlers contingency theory of leadership.

How do the theories of Tannenbaum and Schmidts leadership continuum and McGregors Theory X and Theory Y attempt to define leadership?