This week’s video is about contingency leadership style. Contingency leadership style is believed that the action is depend on leaders, followers and situation, managing style should be change depend on circumstances, hence, there is no best style. Least Preferred Co-worker Scale is used to determine if you are task-oriented or relationship-oriented. Situation favorableness is also determined to understand the leader-member relations, task structure and position power. Task motivated leader focus on increasing productivity but lack of support while relationship motivated leader monitors the follower to do task but less productivity. Relationship motivated leader can clarify the task to improve effective while task motivated leader will become autocratic. Leadership continuum model is a theory that use boss-centered leadership and subordinate-centered leadership to determine 7 different leadership style which range from decision fully made by leader to decision is permitted to make by employees. Path-goal leadership style is used to select directive style, supportive style, participative style and achievement-oriented style leadership based on the situation that consider employee, task and environment characteristic. There are two main type of contingency leadership which is prescriptive which leader makes the decision before hand and descriptive which leader make decision instantaneous based on factors. There are also model to help leader decide which style to use such as Vroom-Yetton Decision Model, Normative leadership Model. Vroom Leadership styles start with leader making decision alone then leader consult individually, followed by leader consult in a group, then leader facilitate meeting to make decision, followed by the leader let the group discuss and make decision. Normative leadership Model use 7 factor to choose a leadership style which are decision significance, important of commitment, leader expertise, like hood of commitment, group support for objective, group expertise and team competence.

In this week, I learn about contingency leadership. In simple words, contingency leadership is a leadership style that is based on leader, follower and situation. How a leader leads, how the follower reacts and what is the situation play an important role in choosing a right leadership style. There is no best way but the best suited way.