leadership

Introduction Note: from toolshero.com The situational approach of leadership provides a very important consideration on leadership effectiveness, that is, the critical role played by the leadership situation that can make a leader effective or ineffective (Seyranian, 2009).  Fred E Fiedler has developed a more detailed and logical approach under this theory which he named as the Contingency Theory of Leadership.  Contingency Theory has two parts: Measuring a leader’s leadership style to scale the predominant style of a leader falling under either Task Oriented or Relations Oriented.  Determining the Situational Favorableness that a given leadership situation offers a leader. Situational favorableness is measured by the combination of three situational variables. How much is the task structured: High or Low Leader-Member Relations: Good or Poor Leader’s Position Power: Strong or Weak Note: From business-to-you.com There can be several combinations of the Situational Factor...