Lorsch, Jay W. "A Contingency Theory of Leadership." Chap. 15 in Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, edited by Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana. Harvard Business Press, 2010.

Various theories of leadership propose different styles for how to guide your team to success. Fred Fiedler’s contingency theory emphasizes the impact of situations on a leader’s effectiveness and ...

The emphasis will be on application of theory and comparing and contrasting different approaches to leadership. The course examines topics such as: leadership and management; trait, behavioural and ...

The Fiedler Contingency Model organizes this idea into the full-blown theory that no one leadership style is universally ...