The Fiedler Contingency Theory of Leadership Effectiveness
Fred Fiedler developed a contingency model of leadership that suggests a leader’s effectiveness is contingent on the fit between their leadership style and the situation they face.
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🏢 Program 3: Managing and Leading Individuals
🏘️ Course 11: Leadership
🏠 Section 3: Situational Leadership
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📝 LESSON NOTES
Fred Fiedler published A Theory of Leadership Effectiveness in 1967: https://geni.us/inBOF
He developed a way to measure a leader’s approach to managing meeple, called the Least Preferred Coworker score (LPC score).
– High LPC leader: tends to put people first, prioritize good relationships, accept weaknesses, and like to help and please others.
– Low LPC leader: tends to be directive and controlling, keen to prioritize task completion, and takes a hard stance on poor performance or lack of competence.
LPC scores do not correlate well with team performance. Instead, he discovered three other factors at play:
• The extent to which the work is structured and defined, or unstructured and adaptive
• The amount of positional power – or formal authority – the leader has within the organizational
• The nature of the relationship between the leader and their followers – high or low trust and loyalty to the leader
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Fiedler suggested that the style of leadership – High or Low LPC – that works best is linked to thrre conditions (contingencies).
1. How well-defined are the tasks your team needs to carry out? (1 MC CPD Point)
2. How much formal power do you have, as a leader? (1 MC CPD Point)
3. How would you characterize the relationship between you and your team members? (2 MC CPD Points)
📚 RECOMMENDED READING
There are a vast number of Leadership books – perhaps more than on any other management-related topic. And there is also a huge range represented in different lists of the best. This no-doubt reflects the different contexts for leadership.
So, any recommended reading list of leadership books must be particularly subjective. I have chosen those that made me think, and which are of particular value to managerial leaders: not sportspeople, military leaders, or CEOs. In no particular order:
📖 Leaders Eat Last
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📖 Start with Why
https://geni.us/D8ZSs
📖 Humble Leadership
https://geni.us/KMuCl
📖 The Leadership Challenge
https://geni.us/nyQ3
📖 The New Leaders
https://geni.us/5ziIw
📖 Shackleton’s Way
https://geni.us/Oicsj
📖 Why should Anyone be Led by You
https://geni.us/xugbBk1
📖 The Habit of Excellence
https://geni.us/VIz8Z
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🔖 CHAPTER MARKERS
00:00 – Fred Fiedler’s Contingency Model of Leadership Effectiveness
00:18 – A Theory of Leadership Effectiveness, 1967
00:42 – High LPC and Low LPC Leaders
01:06 – LPC Scores and Team Effectiveness
01:42 – Fiedler’s three contingencies
04:21 – Fiedler’s full model
04:39 – Assessment of the Fiedler Contingency Model of Leadership
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