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PART 1: READ AND REFLECT ON THE CHAPTER. YOUR READING LOG POST MUST BE COMPLETED BY THE DUE DATE. YOUR READING LOG SHOULD INCLUDE A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE CHAPTER, AND AT LEAST ONE KEY TERM & QUOTE, AS WELL AS, A BRIEF REFLECTION ON ONE CASE STUDY; USE THE QUESTIONS PROVIDED AFTER THE CASE STUDIES TO GUIDE YOUR THINKING.
PART 2: READ THE RESPONSES POSTED BY YOUR CLASSMATES AND RESPOND TO AT LEAST ONE OF THOSE POSTINGS BY THE DUE DATE. CHAPTER 3
Contingency
Approaches to
Leadership
Part 1: An
Introduction
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Contingency and Contingency
Approaches
Contingency
• Theory meaning one thing depends on other
things – “It depends”
Contingency approaches
• Approaches that seek to delineate the
characteristics of situations and followers and
examine the leadership styles that can be used
effectively
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Exhibit 3.1 – Comparing the Universalistic and
Contingency Approaches to Leadership
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Exhibit 3.2 – Meta-Categories of Leader
Behavior and Four Leader Styles
Leaders can adjust
these as needed
Sources: Based on Gary Yukl, Angela Gordon, and Tom Taber, ‘‘A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Leadership Behavior: Integrating a Half Century
of Behavior Research,’’ Journal of Leadership and Organization Studies 9, no. 1 (2002), pp. 15–32 and Gary Yukl, ‘‘Effective Leadership
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in whole or2012),
in part.pp. 66–81.
Behavior:©2018
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of Management
Perspectives
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Remember from Chapter 2
The Leadership Grid®
Source: The Leadership Grid figure from Leadership Dilemma—Grid Solutions by Robert R. Blake and Anne Adams McCanse (formerly the
Managerial Grid by Robert R. Blake and Jane S. Mouton). Houston: Gulf Publishing Company, p. 29. Copyright 1991 by Scientific Methods, Inc.
Reproduced by permission of the owners.
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Situational Theory
Hersey and Blanchard’s
extension of the Leadership Grid
focusing on the characteristics
of followers as the important
element of the situation, and
consequently, of determining
effective leader behavior
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Exhibit 3.3 – The Situational Model
of Leadership
Source: Adapted from The Hersey and Blanchard Situational Leadership Model / The Center for Leadership Studies, Inc.
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Hersey and Blanchard’s Situational
Theory—Leader Style
Telling style (Authority Compliance)
• Directive approach that reflects a high concern for tasks
and a low concern for people and relationships
Selling style (Team Management)
• Based on a high concern for both relationships and tasks
Participating style (Country Club)
• Characterized by high relationship and low task behavior
Delegating style (Impoverished)
• Reflects a low concern for both tasks and relationships
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Which Style is correct? It Depends.
The Situational Model of Leadership
Source: Adapted from The Hersey and Blanchard Situational Leadership Model / The Center for Leadership Studies, Inc.
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Hersey and Blanchard’s Situational
Theory—Follower Readiness
Low readiness
• Use the telling leader style
Moderate readiness
• Use the selling leader style
High readiness
• Use the participating leader style
Very high readiness
• Use the delegating leader style
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CHAPTER 3
Contingency
Approaches to
Leadership
Part 2: PathGoal Theory
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Path–Goal Theory
A contingency approach to
leadership in which the leader’s
responsibility is to increase
subordinates’ motivation by
clarifying the behaviors
necessary for task
accomplishment and rewards
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Exhibit 3.5 – Leader Roles in the
Path–Goal Model
Source: Reprinted from Organizational Dynamics, 13 (Winter 1985), Bernard M. Bass, “Leadership: Good, Better, Best,” pp. 26–40, Copyright 1985,
with permission from Elsevier.
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Situational Contingencies in PathGoal Theory
• Personal characteristics of group members
– Ability and skills
– Needs and motivations
• Work environment
– Degree of task structure
– Nature of the formal authority system
– Work group itself
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Possible Leader Behaviors in PathGoal Theory (slide 1 of 2)
Supportive leadership
• Shows concern for subordinates’ well-being and
personal needs
• Leader’s behavior is open, friendly, and approachable,
and the leader creates a team climate and treats
subordinates as equals
Directive leadership
• Tells subordinates exactly what they are supposed to
do
• Leader behavior includes planning, making schedules,
setting performance goals and behavior standards,
and stressing adherence to rules and regulations
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Leader Behavior in Path-Goal
Theory (slide 2 of 2)
Participative leadership
• Consults with subordinates about decisions
• Leader behavior includes asking for opinions and
suggestions, encouraging participation in decision
making, and meeting with subordinates in their
workplaces
Achievement-oriented leadership
• Sets clear and challenging goals for subordinates
• Leader behavior stresses high-quality performance
and improvement over current performance
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Exhibit 3.6 – Path–Goal Situations
and Preferred Leader Behaviors
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CHAPTER 3
Contingency
Approaches to
Leadership
Part 3: VroomJago
Contingency
Model
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The Vroom–Jago Contingency Model
(slide 1 of 2)
A contingency model that
focuses on varying degrees of
participative leadership and
how each level of participation
influences the quality and
accountability of decisions
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The Vroom–Jago Contingency Model
(slide 2 of 2)
• Situational factors shape the likelihood that
either a participative or autocratic approach will
produce the best outcome
• Tells the leader precisely the correct amount of
participation by subordinates to use in making a
particular decision
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Exhibit 3.7 – Five Leader Decision
Styles
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Selecting a Decision Style
• Timesaving-based model
– Use when a decision has to be made
immediately
• Development-based model
– Use when it is important to develop the thinking
and decision-making skills of followers
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Diagnostic Questions (slide 1 of 2)
Decision significance
• How significant is this decision for the project or organization?
Importance of commitment
• How important is subordinate commitment to carrying out the
decision?
Leader expertise
• What is the level of the leader’s expertise in relation to the
problem?
Likelihood of commitment
• If the leader were to make the decision alone, would
subordinates have high or low commitment to the decision?
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Diagnostic Questions (slide 2 of 2)
Group support for goals
• What is the degree of subordinate support for the team’s or
organization’s objectives at stake in this decision?
Goal expertise
• What is the level of group members’ knowledge and expertise
in relation to the problem?
Team competence
• How skilled and committed are group members to working
together as a team to solve problems?
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Exhibit 3.8 – Timesaving-Based
Model
Source: Reprinted from Organizational Dynamics, 28, no. 4, Victor H. Vroom, ‘‘Leadership and the Decision-Making Process,’’ pp. 82–94, Copyright
2000, with permission from Elsevier.
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Exhibit 3.9 – Employee
Development-Based Model
Source: Victor H. Vroom, ‘‘Leadership and the Decision-Making Process,’’ Organizational Dynamics 28, no. 4 (Spring 2000), pp. 82–94. This is
Vroom’s adaptation of Tannenbaum and Schmidt’s Taxonomy.
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Substitutes for Leadership
Substitute
• Situational variable that makes leadership
unnecessary or redundant
Neutralizer
• Situational characteristic that counteracts the
leadership style and prevents the leader from
displaying certain behaviors
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Exhibit 3.10 – Substitutes and
Neutralizers for Leadership
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