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This essay serves as the next section in your research paper and focuses on contingency leadership theories. In a 600-word essay, discuss how Malcolm X adapts his or her leadership style to fit the situation or the people in a given situation. Incorporate the normative leadership theory in your discussion:

1. Review the normative leadership theory and models in your textbook. Based on your research, which of the five normative leadership styles best describes this leader's preferred style? Explain.

2. Discuss a specific situation when the leader needed to adapt his or her leadership style to another of the five normative leadership styles (different from his or her preferred style). Discuss which "model questions" may have helped determine the appropriate leadership style for that situation, and explain why.

Use at least one source from the library to support your rationale. Remember to apply APA style to the essay.

Model Questions to Determine the Appropriate Leadership style

To determine which of the five leadership styles is the most appropriate for a given situation, we answer a series of diagnostic questions based on seven variables. We now explain how to answer the questions, based on the variable, when using the two models.

1. Decision Significance: How important is the decision to the success of the project or organization? Is the decision of high (H) importance or low (L) importance to the success? When making highly important decisions, leaders need to be involved.

2. Importance of Commitment: How important is follower commitment to implement the decision? If acceptance of the decision is critical to effective implementation, importance is high (H). If commitment is not impotent, it's Low (L). When making highly important commitment decisions that followers may not line and may not implement, followers generally need to be involved in making the decision.

3. Leader Expertise: How much knowledge and expertise does the leader have with this specific decision? Is expertise high (H) or low (L)? The more expertise the leader has, the less need there is for follower participation.

4. Likelihood of Commitment: If the leader were to make the decision alone, is the certainty that the followers would be committed to the decision high (H) or low (L)? When making decision that followers will like and want to implement, there is less need to involve them in the decision.  

5. Group Support for Objectives: Do followers have high (H) or low (L) support for the team or organizational goals to be attained in solving the problem? Higher levels of participation are acceptable with high levels of support.

6. Group Expertise: How much knowledge and expertise do the individual followers have with this specific decision? Is expertise high (H) or Low (L)? The more expertise the followers have, the greater the individual or group participation can be.

7. Team Competence: Is the ability of the individuals to work together as a team to solve the problem high (H) or Low (L)? With high team competence, more participation can be used.