NIELIT 2019 Feb Scientist C - Section E: 16

Question

The promise of behavioral theories of leadership held that this would be possible:

• A. picking a leader out of the crowd
• B. being able to train a person to be a leader
• C. explaining why successful leaders are so successful
• D. eliminating ineffective leaders

Answer 1

• A. being able to train a person to be a leader

Comments

The great promise of behavioral theories of leadership is that they would show how leaders could be trained, making "being able to train a person to be leader". Behavioral theories attempted to identify what successful leaders did, and if those actions could be identified, they could be imparted to others through training.