Would a subordinates personality characteristics affect the way he or she reacts to various leadership styles?
Explain. • Yes, a subordinate’s personality characteristics could affect the way he or she reacts to various leaderships styles. • For instance, the personality characteristic, locus of control could influence how a person reacted to a leader’s requests. • Likewise, a person’s self-monitoring tendencies, Machiavellianism, authoritarianism, & self-esteem could also affect how an individual responded to a leader. R5. What similarities & differences do you see in these contingency models: Fiedler, House’s path-goal, & Hersey-Blanchard? • The contingency models are similar in that each recognizes the key elements in a leadership situation: the leader & his or her style (traits), the subordinates & how the leader interacts with them (leader behavior), & the leadership situation (situational contingencies). • Yet, they are different in that each measures & explains these various factors differently. R9. What are the various sources of power that a leader might use? Do you think any one sourc
