Contingency Theory
Imagine you are an HR professional in an organization whose middle managers have been struggling with organizational communication and leadership principles. You have been asked by the leadership team to write a comprehensive research-based report on organizational communication and leadership. Your report will be distributed to all middle managers to study before the organization’s leadership conference next month. Your report will serve as the jumping off point for the conference.
In 1925 words, use the support of at least eight scholarly articles published in the last 7 years to do the following:
Describe French and Raven’s Bases of Power. Compare this theory to two other theories of power related to workplace settings.
Describe various leadership styles and how these styles affect employees.
Describe Fiedler’s Contingency Theory and how leaders can become more effective by matching their leadership style to the situation at hand.
Explain how leaders can improve organizational communication.
Explain four different types of communication patterns used by organizations. Compare these four types and explain the positives and negatives of each.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
