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Explain why leadership style of a supervisor is sometimes irrelevant.
 
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Identify and explain the five types of personality characteristics that have been singled out as having relevance to understanding the behavior and motivation of employees at work.



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The belief that a particular leadership style will always be effective regardless of the situation may not be true. Leadership may not always be important. Data from numerous studies demonstrate that, in many situations, any behaviors a leader exhibits are irrelevant. Certain individual, job, and organizational variables can act as substitutes for leadership or neutralize the leader's ability to influence followers. These things make it impossible for leader behavior to make any difference in follower outcomes. They negate the leader's influence. For instance, characteristics of employees such as experience, training, professional orientation, or indifference toward organizational matters can substitute for, or neutralize, the effect of leadershi

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