Question

If you were using the Fiedler contingency model of leadership to establish a scenario in your company which gives managers maximum control, which of the following combinations of situational dimensions would you seek to achieve? good leader-member relations, low position power, and unstructured jobs less structured jobs, strong position power, and moderate leader-member relations broad employee responsibilities, low position power, and moderate leader-member relations high task structure, good leader-member relations, and strong position power limited position power, good leader-member relations, and low task structure

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer is letter "D": high task structure, good leader-member relations, and strong position power.

Explanation:

Austrian researcher Fred E. Fiedler (1922-2017) proposed in his Contingency Theory that there is no set style of leadership since they would depend on the situation that requested a certain type of leader. That situation, referred in Fiedler's theory as "Situational Favorableness", depended on:

• Task Structure: type of task in charge.
• Leader-Member Relations: trust subordinates have on leaders.
• Leader's Position Power: the power to direct the team.

Fiedler stated that maximum control is achieved when leaders have high task structure, good leader-member relations, and strong position power.