After completing your reading for week 2, consider the following discussion questions in detail. Please note that, as you are able, include examples from your current work or most recent place of employment in your responses to the following questions.

Questions:

• Why and how do you think there has been an evolution among the three leadership eras detailed in your reading assignment?
• Which model do you find more useful as a tool to describe the function of leadership, Fiedler's Contingency Model, the Normative Decision Model, the Path-Goal Theory, Substitutes for Leadership, and Leader-Member Exchange?
• Of the models listed in question #2, how would you rank these models from most to least useful? Please detail why and how you evaluated the models in order to rank them.
• What elements from each model do you see as their most obvious strength and weakness?