Fiedler's contingency model of leadership has made an important and lasting contribution to the study of leadership because it:
A)is the only leadership theory to adopt a contingency approach.
B)was the first theory to recognize the existence of leadership substitutes.
C)suggests that organizations need to engineer the situation to fit the leader's preferred style.
D)discovered that effective leaders do not have a common set of competencies.
E)is the only theory to adopt the implicit leadership perspective.

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Fiedler's contingency model argues that if leadership style is influenced by a leader's personality, organizations should engineer the situation to fit the leader's dominant style, rather than expecting leaders to change their styles to fit situations.

Fiedler's Contingency Model of Leadership Has Made an Important and Lasting