Leader Behaviors
Follower Characteristics
Task Characteristics
Strengths
Criticisms
100
A leadership behavior that provides challenges.
What is achievement?
100
A leadership behavior used when a follower has high expectations.
What is an achievement oriented style?
100
A leadership behavior used if the task is ambiguous and unstructured.
What is a participative leadership behavior?
100
The path-goal theory is about leaders getting followers to accomplish designated goals.
What is motivation?
100
The path-goal theory is complex and incorporates so many different aspects.
What is confusing about the path-goal theory?
200
A leadership behavior that provides nurturance.
What is supportive?
200
A leadership behavior used when a follower needs human touch or is unsatisfied.
What is a supportive style?
200
A leadership behavior used when the task is complex and has unclear rules.
What is the directive leadership behavior?
200
Leaders choose an appropriate leadership style for followers and tasks' characteristics.
How does the path-goal framework inform leader?
200
The scope of the path-goal theory is so broad and encompasses so many different interrelated sets of assumptions.
What is difficult about he path-goal theory?
300
A leadership behavior that provides guidance and psychological structure to the followers.
What is directive?
300
A leadership behavior used when the followers have a need for control.
What is a participative leadership behavior?
300
A leadership behavior used when the task is complex and challenging.
What type of leadership behavior is achievement oriented?
300
Path-goal theory provides a model to work from.
What is practical?
300
Empirical research studies have been conducted to test the path-goal's validity.
What has partial support?
400
A leadership behavior that provides involvement.
What is participative?
400
A leadership behavior used when the followers have high expectations.
What is the achievement oriented style?
400
A leadership behavior used if the task is mundane or repetitive.
What is the supportive leadership style?
400
No other leadership approaches deals directly with motivation like path-goal theory does.
What is unique about the path-goal theory?
400
The path-goal theory does not explain adequately the relationship between leadership behavior and follower motivation.
What does the path-goal fail at doing?
500
A leadership behavior used when the follower characteristics are dogmatic.
What is a directive syle?
500
A leadership behavior used when the followers need clarity.
What is a participative style?
500
A leadership behavior used when tasks are ambiguous, unclear.
What is the participative leadership behavior?
500
Path-Goal theory provides a useful understanding how various leadership behaviors affect followers' satisfaction and work performance.
What is a theoretical framework?
500
The path-goal theory places a great deal on the leaders and much less on followers.
Who has the responsibility in the path-gaol theory?
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