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_____ for leadership suggest that there are work environment factors that prevent leaders from acting as they wish or that offset the effects of certain acts of leadership.

A) Substitutes
B) Moderators
C) Neutralizers
D) Enhancers

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Which of the following is a conclusion of the meta-analysis performed by Podsakoff,MacKenzie,and Bommer?

A) Leader behaviors were not responsible for variance in employee attitudes.
B) Addition of the substitutes variables reduces the ability to explain variances in criterion variables.
C) Variance explained in the subordinate criterion variables cannot be accounted for the substitutes for leadership variables.
D) Substitutes have very important effects but do not diminish the role of the leader.

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Unlike substitutes,neutralizers do not replace the leader's behavior and,as a result,may be said to produce a(n) :

The existence of written work goals,guidelines,and ground rules may serve as _____ for leader-provided coordination under certain conditions.

Job pressure and subordinate expectations of leader behavior act primarily to:

A neutralizer makes it easier for relationship and/or task-oriented leadership to make a difference.

Substitutes for leadership are prominent in many different organizational settings,and their existence is explicated in many of the dominant leadership theories.

Variance explained in the subordinate criterion variables cannot be accounted for the substitutes for leadership variables.

It is possible to conceptualize a direct effect of leadership as one which occurs when a subordinate is influenced by some leader behavior in and of itself.

Findings of the meta-analysis by Podsakoff,MacKenzie,and Bommer indicate that satisfied employees:

Explain the effects of the following substitutes of leadership based on the meta-analysis by Podsakoff,MacKenzie,and Bommer: (1) Role ambiguity (2) Role conflict (3) Altruism.

Subordinate experience and training cannot act as substitutes for the indirect effects of task-oriented leadership.

The meta-analysis of the relationships between Kerr and Jermier's substitutes for leadership and employee job attitudes,role perceptions,and performance found that noncontingent punishment is highly correlated with noncontingent reward behavior.

Miner believes that for task control to be effective:

Briefly describe the findings of the study conducted by Podsakoff and his associates on substitutes of leadership.

The effect of neutralizers is to create a(n) _____ from which a variety of dysfunctions may emerge.

A _____ is something that reduces leaders' ability to influence subordinate criterion variables and,in effect,replaces leader influence.

The substitutes for leadership construct may help explain why the direction of causality:

In 1977,Kerr argued that there are many individual,task,and organizational factors that may serve as either substitutes for or neutralizers of a leader's behavior.

Employees are more likely to exhibit _____ when tasks provide ample feedback without being overly routinized or intrinsically satisfying.