leaders if management

four stages of readiness (fiedler)

• followers are unable and unwilling

• followers are unable but willing

• followers are able and unwilling

• followers are able and willing

3 major contingency theories of leadership

• hersey and blanchard situational leadership theory- telling, selling, participating and delegating

• the fiedler model- leadership member relations, task structur, position power

• fiedler contingency model- effective groups depend on a proper match between a leaders style of interacting with subordinates and the degree to which the situation gives control and influence to the leader

managerial grid

two dimensional grid for apraising leadership styles using concern for people and concern for production as dimensions

path goal theory

leaders job is to assist his followers in attaining their goals and to provide the direction or support needed to ensure that their goals are compatible with the overall goals of the organization

according to robert house, a leaders style depends on t he situation

• directive

• supportive

• participative

• achievement oriented

what does a leadership contingency say?

that the leaders job is to assist followers in attaining their goals and to provide direction or support needed to ensure that their goals are compatible with those of the group or organization