Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)

Question

1. In the contingency leadership model, the most important component of situational control is position power.
2. Adaptive, flexible organizational cultures are less likely to foster transformational leadership than bureaucratic ones.
3. Female leaders tend to use transformational leadership more than male leaders do.
4. Steve Jobs is an example of a transformational leader; he had a vision of developing an "insanely great" desktop computer.

Answer 1

1. FALSE
Leader-member relations, the most important component of situational control, reflects the extent to which a leader has or doesn't have the support, loyalty, and trust of the work group.
2. FALSE
Adaptive, flexible organizational cultures are more likely than are rigid, bureaucratic cultures to foster transformational leadership.
3. TRUE
Female leaders tend to use transformational leadership more than male leaders do.
4. TRUE
A transformational leader inspires motivation by offering an agenda, a grand design, an ultimate goal, or in short, a vision, "a realistic, credible, attractive future" for the organization, as leadership expert Burt Nanus calls it. For example, Steve Jobs had a vision of developing an "insanely great" desktop computer.