Comparing Leadership Theories
Comparing Leadership Theories
Fiedler’s contingency theories in general state that the effectiveness of leadership depends
upon situation, there are numerous factors; such as nature of the task, leader’s personality,
good leader-member relationship and makeup of the group being led. And if there is lacking
within these combinations and context will result in leadership failure.
Fielder created the least preferred co-worker scale (LPC), where a leader is asked what traits
can be ascribed to the co-worker that the leader likes the least.
Least preferred co-workers: preference of either leader to work with followers or preference of
followers to work with leader. Fiedler claimed that the LPC scores could be used to identify the
appropriate leader for a situation.