Question

Have you ever participated in a virtual group? Describe your experience. What was satisfying? What was

Review Fiedler’s and Hersey & Blanchard’s contingency models. Develop your own list of the most important contingencies that you think should be considered in deciding what type of leadership would be most effective in various situations. Using your list, decide what type of leadership you would recommend for each situation below,? Explain your reasoning.

a group of college students studying together for a final exam

a heart transplant team

a task force of neighbors trying to rid the neighborhood of “crack” dealers

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Answer 1

Yes once I participated in a virtual group focusing on video calling services named veebo. experience was great as compared to my most of the friends working in other though some problems occur in every field of line. Calibration with my team members working on the project with me was satisfying.

The model of contingency was developed in 1960’s by Fred Fiedler and the model of situation was created by ken Blanchard and Paul Hersey in the 1970’s which depicts and explains how can different approaches to leadership can help managers and owner to reach their goal and achieve what they want to do.

Four important ideas of CT are:

1. There is no universal or one best way to manage
2. The design of an organizations and its subsystems must 'fit' with the environment
3. Effective organizations not only have a proper 'fit' with the environment but also between its subsystems and
4. The needs of an organization are better satisfied when it is properly designed and the management style is appropriate both to the tasks undertaken and the nature of the work group.  

CT of leadership:

In CT of leadership, the success of the leader is a function of various contingencies in the form of subordinate, task, and/or group variables. The effectiveness of a given pattern of leader behavior is contingent upon the demands imposed by the situation. These theories stress using different styles of leadership appropriate to the needs created by different organizational situations. No single contingency theory has been postulated. Some of the theories are:

∙ Fiedler’s CT: Fiedlers theory is the earliest and most extensively researched. Fiedler’s approach departs from trait and behavioral models by asserting that group performance is contingent on the leader’s psychological orientation and on three contextual variables: group atmosphere, task structure, and leader’s power position. This theory explains that group performance is a result of interaction of two factors. These factors are known as leadership style and situational favorableness. In Fiedler's model, leadership effectiveness is the result of interaction between the style of the leader and the characteristics of the environment in which the leader works.

∙ Hersey & Blanchard’s situational theory: This theory is an extension of Blake and Mouton’s Managerial Grid Model and Reddin’s 3-D management style theory. With this model came the expansion of the notion of relationship and task dimensions to leadership and adds a readiness dimension.

A group of college students studying together for a final exam has to know the needs of an organization are better satisfied when they are properly designed and the management style is appropriate for both of the tasks undertaken and the nature of workgroup. Because when they perform group study they will be able to help each other by solving each other’s query in their respective manner leading to better result in exam.

Effective organizations come under a heart transplant team because they not only have to with proper ‘fit’ with the environment but also between its subsystems work group is essential in all these terms.

The design of an organization and its subsystem must ‘fit’ with the environment in a task force of neighbors trying to get rid of the neighborhood of “crack” dealers because it’s not good for society and youngsters these don’t fit in our subsystem leading to addiction and all of wastage money leading to these brothels rise and all protest has to be done with police complaint.