A characteristic of a work situation is a if it means a leader can use a certain leadership style but the behavior will have little effect.

A) substitute for leadership
B) leadership neutralizer

Read each of the following situations and then use your knowledge of situational leadership to select the words or phrases that best complete the associated sentence.

Vanessa is the newest and least experienced member of the sales team at Organic Trade, Inc. In her first meeting after joining the company, she laid out a plan to re-engineer the way the team deals with distributors.

Vanessa’s (A. People-oriented, B. task-oriented)
leadership behavior is likely to be(A. ineffective, B. effective), because(A. automatice feedback, B. low position power, C. inflexibility, D. a highly structured task) ,
(A. subsitiutes for, B. has no effect on, C. neutralizes) this leadership behavior.

Gary has just been hired as a the new chief legal counsel for a public utility. He will be supervising a group of experienced lawyers. Gary’s first action is to meet with each lawyer individually; he wants everyone on his team to account for the smallest details of his or her work.

Gary’s (A. People-oriented, B. task-oriented) leadership behavior is likely to be(A. ineffective, B. effective), because (A. automatice feedback, B. low position power, C. experience, D. a highly structured task) ,(A. subsitiutes for, B. has no effect on, C. neutralizes) this leadership behavior.