Jeffery Whippo Talks in Detail about Situational Favorability in Leadership

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Jeffery Whippo Talks in Detail about Situational
Favorability in Leadership
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About Jeffery Whippo

• Jeffery Whippo is a professional educator and
  expert in leadership development.
• He has a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and a
  Doctorate in Business Administration.
• He is also a decorated combat Veteran.

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Whippos Views on the Contingency Leadership
Theory

• Whippo claims that styles and situations are the
  foundation of the research done surrounding the
  contingency leadership theory.
• He says that Northouse (2013) claimed that the
  contingency theory approach attempts to match
  leaders to adequate situations, or changes the
  situation to fit the leaders style in an effort
  to increase the opportunity for successful
  leadership.

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More about the Contingency Theory

• Jeffery Whippo says that the contingency theory
  goes on to state that some leaders are better in
  specific situations than others and that the more
  control the leader has, the more effectively they
  will be able to distinguish the situation at
  hand.
• He says that according to Fiedlers Contingency
  Model, Situational Favorability signals the
  amount of control a leader has over his/her
  followers.
• Additionally, he says Fiedler classified 3
  sub-elements in determining favorability
  leader-member relations, task structure, and
  position power.

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Whippo Describes Leader-Member Relations as the
Most Powerful Sub-Element to Determine
Favorability

• Jeff Whippo describes leader-member relations as
  the most powerful of the sub-elements in
  determining overall situational favorability.
• What is measured is whether the relationship
  between the leader and the followers is generally
  cooperative and friendly or antagonistic and
  difficult.
• Jeff says that when leaders rate leader-member
  relations high, they have the support of their
  followers and can therefore rely on their loyalty.

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The Weakest Of the Three Sub-Elements Is Position
Power as Per Whippo

• According to Jeff Whippo, the weakest of the
  three sub-elements is position power.
• He says that titles of authority, the authority
  to administer rewards and punishments, and the
  legitimacy to conduct performance appraisals on
  followers have greater position power than
  leaders that lack these elements.
• He believes that the relative weights of these
  three components are taken together so that they
  can be used for creating a continuum of
  situational favorability.

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Thank youJeffery Whippo