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rachel9 · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

Adaptive leadership incorporates ideas from four different viewpoints: systems perspective, biological perspective, service orientation, and psychotherapy perspective.

Choose one of these perspectives and relate it to the main concepts in one theory found in this text.
What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

What evidence is there for the existence of a glass ceiling?

What will be an ideal response?

whitcassie · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 8, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Answers will vary, but here are some examples that are likely comparisons:
Systems perspectiveStudents could apply a systems perspective to many of the later theories in the text or might see situational leadership as a system in which the leader adapts to the followers' competence and commitment and then adjusts again in different situations (complicated, ever changing systems or tasks).
Biological perspectivepathgoal theory related to follower characteristics; transformational, with the focus on change
Service orientationservant leadership or authentic leadership both have strong leader behaviors that serve others.
Psychotherapy perspectivepsychody namic approach

Answer to Question 2

Women are equal to men in managerial positions, yet only 4 of them are CEOs in Fortune 500 companies. Men and women are about 50/50 in the US labor force and women hold 57 of bachelor's degrees and 60 of master's degrees but 83 of board seats in Fortune 500 companies are held by men. Almost 85 of the U.S. Congress is compiled of men. These striking differences show the inequality that still exists between women and men.