Management - Contingency theories of leadership
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Table of Contents
- Introduction.
- To what extent did Contingency theories of leadership resolve the problem of trait and behavioural theories?
- Some of the main traits according to Stogdill.
- Behavioural theories through 'a managerial grid'.
- Situational and contingency models.
- Vroom and Yetton's model.
- Conclusion.
- Bibliography.
Abstract
contingency theories of leadership were intended to resolve the problems of Trait and Behavioural theories. To what extent have they achieved? According to the dictionary, leadership is « the process whereby one person influences the thoughts and behaviour of others »; it thus appears to be a key element in the success of a company. In those circumstances, we must wonder what the parameters that make a leadership efficient are. It is accordingly that Dr Ralph Melvin Stogdill, an American professor of Psychology, developed the « Trait theory » based on Thomas Carlysle's « Great Man » concept. It was later completed by inter alia Mutton and Blake, who added the dimension of behaviour. However innovative they were, those theories which aimed to describe the ideal leader were inexact; indeed some leaderships which reunited right criteria happened to be fails. In that context, Joseph Bower in order to solve those problems elaborated the « contingency theory », which particularity was to take into account the employees and the situation of the leadership.
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