The Effect of Leadership Style Upon the Performance and Adjustment of Volunteer Teams Operating in Stressful Foreign Environment

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7528072
AutoresFred E Fiedler (autor de correspondencia), Gordon E O'Brien, Gordon E O’Brien, Daniel R Ilgen
Año1969
Volumen22
Número6
Páginas503-514
Fecha de publicación1969-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHuman Relations (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0018-7267 • E-ISSN: 1741-282X
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/001872676902200602
OpenAlexW2111785580
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas9

This study considered the joint effects of leadership style and environmental stress upon group performance and individual adjustment in small volunteer groups. These groups performed public health and community development work in small isolated villages in Central America. Fiedler's Least Preferred Coworker scale (LPC) was used as a measure of leadership style while performance and adjustment measures were obtained from a number of questionnaires and rating scales. Results showed that the task-oriented, low LPC leaders were more effective in the favorable and very unfavorable situations, whereas the person-oriented high LPC leaders were more effective in situations of intermediate favorableness. In villages where the external stress was minimal, the task-oriented (low LPC) leaders had groups which were relatively better adjusted than groups having relationship-oriented (high LPC) leaders. However, in villages where external stress was high, this relationship between leadership style and group adjustment was reversed. Under conditions of high stress, relationship-oriented leaders had groups which were relatively better adjusted

Leadership style · Management · Scale (ratio · Stress (linguistics · Style (visual arts · Task (project management · Volunteer · Applied Psychology · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence · Psychology · Public Relations and Crisis Communication · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology