CLEP Management

Answer: D - Fiedler’s contingency theory was the first to incorporate the situation into leadership evaluation and theory.

Key Takeaway: Fiedler was the first to consider the situation when considering leadership styles and their effectiveness. He conducted his studies using surveys and identified three situational leadership components: position power of the leader, amount of task structure, and the leader-follower relations. The most important of these was deemed the leader-follower relations which described the level of trust and willingness to follow the leader.