This week’s topics
Situational and Contingency Perspectives
- Fiedler's Contingency Model and situational favourableness
- Hersey and Blanchard's Situational Leadership Theory (SLII)
- House's Path-Goal Theory
- Leader-member exchange (LMX) dyadic relationships
- Lecture 10: Contingency Model and Path-Goal Theory
- Lecture 09: Situational Leadership Model
- Lecture 07: Leader–Member Exchange (LMX) Theory
What you will be able to do
- 2.1 Critically discuss situational theories of leadership and the applicability of transactional leadership in an organisation.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: critically discuss situational theories of leadership and the applicability of transactional leadership in an organisation.
Study materials
Videos
- Contingency Theory of Leadership Explained · YouTube · EPM · 11 min · for registered students
- Situational Leadership Model Explained · YouTube · EPM · 10 min · for registered students
- Robert House and Path Goal Theory [Situational Leadership] · YouTube · Management Courses - Mike Clayton · 7 min · for registered students
- Leadership Model: Fiedlers Contingency Theory · YouTube · Galton College · 14 min · for registered students
- Situational Leadership 2 of Kenneth Blanchard and Paul Hersey · YouTube · flixabout.com · 23 min · for registered students
- Commercial Situational Leadership Models · YouTube · Management Courses - Mike Clayton · 7 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Organizational Behavior, ch. 12.6: Situational (contingency) approaches · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 345–348 · for registered students
- LMX, procedural justice and reactions to performance appraisals · PDF · Reading, article · for registered students
- Perceived leadership style and subjective well-being of employees · Reading · Reading, article · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
