Current Events in Public Health Leadership and the Fiedler Contingency Theory

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As pressures and demands for more standardized business structures fluctuate in society, leaders may experience challenges in developing consistent methods for solving public health problems. Though consistency may be necessary for enacting change, within many areas and localities, consistency may not be an option. As a result, a leader must be able to use a systems thinking approach to evaluate the best method for leadership contingent upon the circumstance.

For this Discussion, select a current event related to public health and leadership, not previously discussed in earlier weeks (CHOOSE ONE!!). With the event you selected, apply Fiedler’s Contingency Model. Consider the actions and interactions between leaders and subordinates with the application of this model.

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Post a description (2 Pages, APA format) of the event you selected. Then explain whether the leader’s interaction with his or her subordinates was task-motivated or relationship-motivated. Justify your answer based on Fiedler’s Contingency Model

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Running head: PUBLIC HEALTH LEADERSHIP

Public health leadership
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In mid 1960s, Fred Fiedler developed the Contingency theory after he did thorough study
of the personality and traits of leaders in various parts of the world. He said that absolutely there
is nothing like perfect style of leadership in the community (Ferson, 2006). The ability of leaders
to perform is completely determined by the prevailing environmental and circumstantial
conditions in a given organizational set up. Any leader’s effectiveness is dictated by two factors
i.e. the style of executing leadership and control of the situation. While developing this theory,
he suggested that form of leadership is static and can be evaluated by use a scale he called LeastPreferred Co-W...


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