Contingency Theories of Leadership

Contingency Theories of Leadership
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In contingency theory of leadership, the accomplishment of a leader is the function of various contingencies that are informing of minor task and group variables. The efficiency of a particular pattern of a leader’s character is contingent on the basis of the demands that are imposed by the circumstances. The contingency theories of leadership emphasize on the use of various leadership styles that are appropriate to the requirements and needs established by various organizational circumstances. Some of the postulated contingency theories include Fiedler’s contingency theory, Vroom and Yetton’s normative theory of decision, and Smith’s contingency rules (Goldhaber, 1993). This paper will address the organizational commitment, trust, communication and commitment.
Organizational Communications
In accordance to Wiio and Goldhaber (1993), differences in communication efficiency are the role of both the constituencies of the workforce in terms of sex, tenure, education and age and the type of organization. The process of communication is affected by many internal and external constraints that emanate from the organization itself and its subsystems. This constraint is normally the determinant of the organizational status in its environment’s subsystems, plus the state of each subsystem. Therefore, the communication process entails the contingency upon the internal and external stimulus, and also upon the level of the freedom of states with a system that is acceptable by organizational constraints. Some of these internal contingencies include output, and demographic, structural contingencies, spatiotemporal and traditional contingencies. On the other hand, external contingencies include technological, economic, legal, sociopoliticocultural and environmental contingencies. Some of the questions considered by people who are interested in organizational communication may include the contingencies under which organizations communicate in effective ways when confronting their environment, specific communication needs for different firms, whether internal contingencies of organizations such as sex, age, education, seniority, level of management, and amount of communication training affect training needs, and lastly whether various demographics could be predictors of the needs of communications in various organizations and so on.
Organizational Trust
Organizational trust incorporates the trust index which acts as a facilitator for communicators to measure their organization trust against others in the international scene. The index data base was established from responses acquired studying more than 4, 000 people in eight nations. This resulted into a tool that proved reliable and valid in the international scene. In comparison to trust index, the areas of strength and weaknesses are recognized and employed in establ...