Learn Organizational Behavior with this Assignment

MANAGEMENT
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ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR 1
Leadership from the perspective of the people who are working in the criminal justice
organizations is that they believe that leadership is not about influencing others it is the
important communication that helps the team members to accomplish their operations
through integrated leadership (Diánez-González & Camelo-Ordaz, 2016). In this essay there
will be a discussion about the Fiedler’s original Model of Leadership, this leadership model
will be compared with his later development of Cognitive Resource theory. Apart from this, it
will be also discussed that which leadership style is suitable to operate in the high-stress
incidents and in low-stress incidents. Transactional Leadership, Transformational Leadership
and Visionary Leadership will also be discussed in this assignment from the point of view of
a criminal justice organization.
Fiedler’s original Model of Leadership describes that the effectiveness of any leader’s
leadership style is determined by judging the match between his leadership trait and the
complication of the situation. This leadership model is designed on the premise that everyone
has only one specific leadership style that can score grades on the Least Preferred Co-
Workers (LPC) scale (Gençer & Samur, 2016). This model is created by Fred Fiedler in the
mid-1960s. He further described that everyone has specific characteristics through which it
can be simply determined that which leadership style is incorporating by a specific person.
Fred Fiedler described this point with an example that states suppose a person or leader or
manages utilizes autocratic leadership style then it is not possible for him/her to utilize the
democratic leadership, if he/she desires to change his/her leadership form then they need to
work on their basic characteristics (Gordon, 2016).
In 1987, Fred Fielder and Joe Garcia come up with the Cognitive Resource Theory.
This theory is connected with the Intelligence, experience and capabilities. This theory is the
difference from Fiedler’s original Model of Leadership because under this theory Fred
Fielder and Joe Garcia explained that basic characteristics are not the appropriate aspects to

ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR 2
consider the leadership style although intelligence and experience are the prime factors in the
success of the leadership. Apart from this, cognitive resource theory predicts that a leader's
cognitive ability plays an important role in contributing to the performance of the team but it
operates with one condition that a leader's approach should be directive (Gençer & Samur,
2016). It is described in this theory that the experience of the leader is positively related to
decision quality. Therefore, when there are high-stress situations then the past experience of
the leader can help them to take effective measures to deal with high-stress situations. It is
always noted that in the criminal justice organization, high stress is created because of the
external factors.
Police authorities incorporate situational leadership and transformational leadership.
In the high-stress incidents, the suitable leadership style is situational leadership and
democratic leadership. It will be better for the leader if they incorporate the combination of
both the leadership style instead of relying on one particular leadership. Situational leadership
relies on an analysis of the given situation that should make sense on the particular situation.
In the high-stress situation, it is suggested that leaders should include the applications of
situational leadership with a democratic leadership style to produce effective results. For
example: the situations of the riots create a high-stress situation then the utilization of
situational leadership with democratic leadership will enable the police authorities to take
immediate action (Gençer & Samur, 2016).
On the other hand, in a low-stress environment, a suitable leadership style is a
transformational and autocratic leadership style. The implications of the transformational
leadership style in low-stress environment will allow the leaders to design the vision and
inspiration, the reason behind mixing up the autocratic leadership style with this is that
leaders have the sole authority to direct the policies and vision in the favour of their team
members and this will create the positive atmosphere in the team. For example: while