Comparisons of scores for 215 management students on the Least Preferred Co-worker Scale, the Driver Decision Style Exercise, and the General Incongruity Adaptation Level Self-description Test showed that decision style was positively related to incongruity preference, but neither of these measures was related to leadership style.
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