Fundamentals of Management, 8th ed

Chapter 11: Leadership and Influence Processes

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state the theory in general terms so that future research could explore a variety of inter-

relationships and modify the theory. Research that has been done suggests that the path-

goal theory is a reasonably good description of the leadership process and that future

investigations along these lines should enable us to discover more about the link between

leadership and motivation.

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