Leadership in which the leader's behavior is categorized on a scale from task orientation to people orientation, and efforts are made to find a work situation to which that particular style is best suited is called?

Solution

The contingency model by business and management psychologist Fred Fiedler is a contingency theory concerned with the effectiveness of a leader in an organization. The leadership style of the leader, thus, fixed and measured by what he calls the least preferred co-worker (LPC) scale, an instrument for measuring an individual’s leadership orientation. A high LPC score suggests that the leader has a "human relations orientation", while a low LPC score indicates a "task orientation".