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Leadership Styles
Part 1: Review Fiedler's and Hersey and Blanchard's contingency model in Chapter 7. Choose either Fiedler or Hersey-Blanchard and read more about that model online (see additional links below). In your own words, describe that model and explain the pros and cons of that model.
Advantages of Fiedler's Contingency Model / Fiedler's Contingency Theory / Hersey-Blanchard Situational Leadership Theory / Hersey-Blanchard Situational Leadership Theory
Part 2: 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.
a group of student senators planning the senate agenda for the following month.
a construction crew replacing the roof on your house.
a group of grown children planning their parents' fiftieth wedding anniversary.