Fiedler‘s Contingency Model
To measure leader style Fiedler let leaders rate coworkers with whom they could work least well (called Least-Preferred Coworker or LPC)
- Relationship-oriented leaders tend to describe the LPC in relatively positively terms (leaders are referred to as high LPC)
- Task-oriented leaders tend to describe the LPC in negative terms (leaders are referred to as low LPC)