Practical Application of Fiedler's Contingency Theory of Leadership on the basis of Categories of Effective Classroom Situation

Parijat Keshar Saha

Abstract: The purpose of the study was to understand the college teacher as a leader in different favourable or unfavourable classroom situation in perspective of Fiedler?s Contingency Theory of Leadership. The study was conducted on 400 undergraduate final semester public college students of Kolkata Metropolitan Area (KMA). To assess the leadership style of teacher, Least Preferred Co - worker (LPC) scale was used. Task Structure and Teachers? Positional Power assessed by criteria of variables that pointed out by Fiedler. Co - relational data analysis conducted in this study to understand the relationship of different situational variables with teachers? leadership style. There was no perfect style of leadership, but investigator tired to find out the application of leadership style for teacher according to situation.

Keywords: Fiedler's Contingency Theory of Leadership, Motivated leadership Style, Task structure, Teachers' Positional Power, Favourable Classroom Situation