Purchase Solution

Fielder's Contingency Model & The Mental Model

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

Addressing business problems with the application of concepts such as mental models, and Fiedler contingency model. A discussion of Fielder's matching concept and the pre-existing feelings of mental models.

Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary

This article discusses Fielder's Contingency Model of matching the leader's style with the type of situation that is most favorable for the leader's success. It also discusses understanding Mental Models; which can be thought of as preexisting feelings that determine how an individual sees the world. These feelings can induce biases, and should be recognized that they may paint a distorted picture.

Solution Preview

Using Fielder's Contingency Model and Mental Models to address business problems. The textbook "The Leadership Experience, Second Edition" by Richard L. Daft. Copyright 2002 by South-Western. Mason, Ohio. Pages 80-84, 168-175 was used for reference in writing this article.

Fielder's Contingency Model is a fairly simple idea. The key is to be able to match the leader's style with the type of situation that is most favorable for the leader's success. According to Fielder, there are two basic types of leaders: 1) relationship-oriented and 2) task-oriented.

The relationship-oriented leader performs best when the situation may be vague and calls for a leader that has good communication and human relation skills. So an example might be for a situation when a leader needs to figure out why something ...

Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
Operations Management

This quiz tests a student's knowledge about Operations Management

Transformational Leadership

This quiz covers the topic of transformational leadership. Specifically, this quiz covers the theories proposed by James MacGregor Burns and Bernard Bass. Students familiar with transformational leadership should easily be able to answer the questions detailed below.

Introduction to Finance

This quiz test introductory finance topics.

Accounting: Statement of Cash flows

This quiz tests your knowledge of the components of the statements of cash flows and the methods used to determine cash flows.

Income Streams

In our ever changing world, developing secondary income streams is becoming more important. This quiz provides a brief overview of income sources.

View More Free Quizzes
Related BrainMass Solutions

  • Clerical support assistan

    Fielder's contingency model is also good, as it provides strategies for matching the requirements of particular situation.

  • Hersey-Blanchard Model with Fiedler's model.

    Since the previous model urges leaders to direct, sell, participate, and delegate, they are similar in goals in procedures. However, please note that Fielder's model differs a bit in his emphasis on position power.

  • Contemporary Organizational Theory Models

    Answer the following questions about your model: ? What will the new name of your theory be? For example, your new theory might be called the "rational-ecology-dependence" model or the "population-cost-contingency" model. ?

  • Leadership Styles and Contingency Strategies

    Contingency Strategies for managing any resistance within a company emanates from three sources the task structure, group atmosphere and the leader's power position. This is based on Fielder's contingency theory.

  • Contemporary Leadership Models

    Leadership style and situation was best described in Fielder's contingency model as task structure, leader relationship with others and the formal authority of leader (Horner, 1997).

  • relationship-oriented

    Proposed by the Austrian psychologist Fred Edward Fiedler (1922- ). The contingency model emphasizes the importance of both the leader's personality and the situation in which that leader operates.

  • Leadership Contingency Theories

    38959 Leadership The four contingency theories (Situational Leadership, Contingency Model, Path-Goal, & Normative Decision Model) have all the following characteristic EXCEPT - (a) they are theories rather than just someone's opinion (b) they

  • What is a mental model or mindset; what influences it?

    What forces influence a mental model/mindset, and what forces cause the evolution of that mental model/mindset? How has your mental model/mindset limited your decision making? This is part of the answer...

  • Rationality in Decision Making and Mental Models

    On at least 5 occasions, identify a different mental model that you use on a regular basis. Discuss how this mental model affects your decision making. For each entry: 1. Describe the mental model. 2. Why do you think you hold this mental model?

View More Related Solutions