Question

Fiedler's contingency theory of leadership suggests that leaders should be placed in leadership situations that best fit with their unique leadership styles. This activity is important because in order to use the contingency theory properly, organizations need to understand how to determine where their leaders' styles are best suited. The goal of this exercise is to challenge your knowledge of Fiedler's Contingency Theory of leadership.

The goal of this exercise is to challenge your knowledge of Fiedler's Contingency Theory of leadership.
Indicate whether the situation it describes is better suited for task-motivated or relationship-motivated leadership.

a, Opinion
b. Cofident

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

Suppose, you are a team leader & perhaps your opinion is huge and respected by your workers. Then;

Opinion is better-suited for relationship-motivated leadership

However, let say you're promoted from your post to another position to lead a team, it is possible that your followers will get bitter due to the fact that you're being promoted. In this case;

Confident is better-suited for  relationship-motivated leadership

Similarly, a scenario where we can have a task motivated leadership is as follows:

Let assume that, your workers are working on a project and you're not present there as a team leader.

Then, Achieve is better suited for task-motivated leadership