Leadership prototypes refer to:
a. a theoretical construct that encompasses all the qualities of leadership.
b. an amalgam of the least effective leadership characteristics leaders should avoid.
c. factors that substitute leadership in organizations.
d. preconceived beliefs about the features and behaviors of effective leaders.
e. the models of ideal leadership in various situations based on previous experience.

e. the models of ideal leadership in various situations based on previous experience

Explanation:

The previous experiences in the exercise of certain functions  can support the bases to  the identification of behaviors, attitudes, aptitudes and characteristics that defines patrons that replicated in many cases become into a model, a new paradigm, in this order of ideas, the leadership prototypes are an among of models associated with representative characteristics that a good leader must have.

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