Welch
Leadership Qualities Under Welch at GE
From the perspective of Fielders Contingency Theory of Leadership (Northhouse Figure 6.), What do you Welch's score would be on the LPC Scale?
The Fiedler Contingency Theory suggests that leaders who are motivated by situational parameters, or who are task-oriented, will tend to take a lest humanist approach to their responsibilities. The way in which Jack Welch would objectively eliminate countless underperforming divisions of GE suggests that he was decidedly task orientated in his leadership approach. This, Fiedler suggests, would make him a low scorer on the LPC scale.
Welch's core Leadership Orientation/Motivation would be change. Welch can be clearly identified as a transformative or change-driven leader. Indeed, he would step into the company during a recession...
According to the case history, he would sell off more than 200 prominent holdings that were either underperforming or could not be streamlined. He would replace these with 370 new acquisitions. The shift would bring about a momentous change in the company's ability for growth.
To the point, at the end of Welch's tenure, there can be little question that he oversaw a period of momentous success for the corporate giant. He would help to drive the company to new heights of growth, with GE realizing…
