The realization that leadership effectiveness depends on the interaction of qualities of the leader with demands on the situation in which the leader functions made the simplistic "one best way" approaches of earlier eras obsolete. The implication of contingency notions spread like sonic waves throughout the field of organizational studies.

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The Leadership Situation and the Black Box in Contingency Theories -- Legitimacy, Power, and Influence. A Perspective on Relational Features of Leadership -- Transformational Leadership. A Response to Critiques -- Toward the Integration of Transformational, Charismatic, and Visionary Theories -- Leadership, Values, and Accountability -- Leadership Perception. The Role of Gender and Culture -- The Contingency Model in Cross-Cultural Perspective -- Managing Cultural Diversity on the Individual, Group, and Organizational Levels -- Toward a Dynamic and Systemic Theory of Groups. An Integration of Six Temporally Enriched Perspectives -- Team Research in the 1990's -- Four Revolutions in Behavioral Decision Theory -- An Integrative Theory of Leadership -- Directions for Leadership Research.