Question

Review Feilder's contingency model, located in chapter 10 of your textbook, Organization Behavior in Health Care. Discuss the assumption in the model that leadership is "fixed" and how this would impact a health care environment. Is this model the most appropriate for a health care environment? Why? Provide an example of how you have seen this model used. Review Feilder's contingency model, located in chapter 10 of your textbook, Organization Behavior in Health Care. Discuss the assumption in the model that leadership is "fixed" and how this would impact a health care environment. Is this model the most appropriate for a health care environment? Why? Provide an example of how you have seen this model used.

Answer 1

According to the contingency model of Feilder, leadership style is the result of experiences throughout the lifespan.Thus leadership is unchangable or "fixed".Feilder says that the behaviour of leadership is fixed. In stressful situations, leaders live in a specified place on the stressful relations with others and cannot focus their intellectual abilities on the job. Thus, intelligence is more effective and used more often in stress-free situations. According to Feilder's theory effectiveness depends on an appropriate match between a leader’s style and the demand of the situation.

This theory has a great impact on health care environment.This theory has been applied in the leadership of nursing.This leadership styles have been applied in nursing to improve quality of care provided to patient. Relationship oriented leadership style has made it easy to build teams and attain organizational goals. Thus it was found that nursing leaders have been able to influence employees in the organization.Thus contingency theory has been very useful in bringing change in the organization.