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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Fred Fiedler published A Theory of Leadership Effectiveness in 1967: 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).
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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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Fiedler's contingency theory of leadership was an early situational leadership model. It's not widely known now, but Fiedler's findings do offer us some important insights.
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