{"id":677,"date":"2018-06-17T22:50:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T02:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/?p=677"},"modified":"2018-06-17T22:50:19","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T02:50:19","slug":"situational-leadership-contingency-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/2018\/06\/17\/situational-leadership-contingency-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Situational Leadership\/Contingency Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As the weeks have gone on, it has been interesting to see how each individual in my office has exhibited their own style of leadership &#8212; especially since the five of us have only been working together now for about six weeks. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This week, in particular, I began to focus my attention more to one of the full-time staff who has the more \u201csenior\u201d position at the firm (Employee A). I\u2019ve noticed that Employee A has been increasingly more comfortable with taking initiative during team meetings and \u201cholds her own,\u201d with my supervisor. She has become a well-respected member of the team because of this. I noticed that when the other full-time employee (Employee B) was having a tough time communicating with my supervisor (she is a newly-graduated college student), she felt comfortable approaching the other full-time employee instead of my supervisor. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I found this power dynamic development interesting because I had imagined that as a small team that we would go to my supervisor with any problems or concerns. It was interesting to see how quickly Employee B turned to Employee A for guidance in this situation. I\u2019m still developing thoughts as to why this may be the case, but one of my initial thoughts goes back to contingency theory. Situation plays a big role in contingency theory, and I find that because my supervisor has been her own boss for quite some time now (the situation), it can be difficult for her to be responsible for divvying up work while allocating the appropriate amount of supervision (leadership outcome). I don\u2019t think that this is necessarily true in every instance, but may be an explanation or observation about the behavior exhibited between Employee B and Employee A. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the weeks have gone on, it has been interesting to see how each individual in my office has exhibited<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[76609,76613,76611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leaderfollower-relationships","category-solving-problemsimproving-leadership","category-theories-in-action"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}