Fiedler's Contingency Model

Leader Match is leadership training program developed by Fiedler, Chemers, and Mahar; it is an adaptation of Fiedler’s contingency model (Jago and Ragan, 1986). Taking the contingency theory a step further, Leader Match focuses on the same two factors: leadership style and leadership situation (Jago and Ragan, 1986). The leadership style is determined by the score on the Least Preferred Co-Worker scale (Jago and Ragan, 1986). The situational factor is determined by the leader-member relations, task structure, and leader-position power (Jago and Ragan, 1986). Leader Match leadership training is a self-paced programmed manual which is complete in their own time that takes about four to twelve hours to finish (Fiedler and Mahar, 1979; Leister et al., 1977). At the beginning of the manual, individuals must …show more content…
According to Csoka and Bons (1978), each chapter starts with an explanation of the contingency model theory along with a series of short problems. Appropriate feedback is given based on the answer that will assist the individual to optimize the leader style- leader situation match (Csoka and Bons, 1978; Leister et al., 1977). By the end of the manual, individuals will be able to control the type of situation they are in, in theory (Fiedler and Mahar, 1979).
STRENGTHS OF LEADER MATCH
According to Fiedler and Mahar (1979), they conducted twelve validation studies of the Leader Match training in all types of fields of management. Fiedler and Mahar (1979) found evidence supporting the effectiveness of the training method through the twelve studies. With all the