Fiedler’s (1964) contingency model, House’s (1971) path goal theory of leadership, and Hershey
and Blanchard’s (1977) situational leadership theory all take into account the situational factors
impacting the leader and his choice of action. The contingency approach to leadership was
an attempt to d evelop a more comprehensive picture of leadership, to take into account the
intervening variables which might explain why behavioral e ects on outcomes di er across
situations.