Fielder's Contigency Model Summary

The weakness of Fielder’s Contigency model is lack of flexibily and too subjective on it’s Least Preferred Coworker (LPC) scale. This model suggest a manager must be placed in the right place specifically based on his style, it “gave little to no room for those leaders who can balance relationship, task and power” (Kokemuller, 2015). Also, many scholar debates that the LPC scale is “too subjective, hard to understand and the scales are not stable over time”(da Cruz, Nunes, and Pinheiro,2011). In fielder’s model, high LPC scale reflect postitive description, which means the individual is motivated to maintain harmonious interperaonal relationship, while low LPC score reflect negative perception, and demonstrate the indidual is motivated to focus on task accomplishment. However, other scholars are believe this scale does not “correlate well …show more content…
It is a theory that believes the effective leadership should take into the consideration of situational factors, and a succee leader should adapt to different environment while promoting motivation, indpiration, leadership and development to himself, employee and the organization. In Fidler’s contingency model, leader change his leadership style based on relationship, task structure and position power. In House and Mitchell’s path-goal model, directive, supportive, participative and achievement – oriented leadership are applied based on employees degree of motivation, and in Hersey and Blanchard’s life-cycle model, leadership style is based on subordinates task and psychological maturity (Plunkett, Allen and Attner, 2013). Althoug there are weaknesses in each model, it provided practical leadership framwork that leaders can apply in real life. Therefore, situational leadership theory can be a good reference for management personnel when talking about developing effective leadership culture in an