1. Fred Fiedler's contingency model focused on a contingency model of leadership in organizations. 2. Fred Fiedler's contingency model focused on a contingency model of leadership in organizations. 3. Situational Control is a key concept in both the Contingency Model and in Cognitive Resource Theory. 4. A contingency model of leadership effectiveness. 5. In 1967 he introduced the contingency modeling of leadership, with the now-famous Fiedler contingency model . 6. To understand the effect of different leaders on performance in an organization, Fielder developed the Contingency Model . 7. The Fiedler contingency model bases the leader's effectiveness on what Fred Fiedler called " situational contingency ". 8. This is now sometimes called the " four-term contingency model " with setting conditions added as a fourth term. 9. Thus, the contingency model marks a shift away from the tendency to attribute leadership effectiveness to personality alone ( Forsyth, 2006 ). 10. Cognitive Resource Theory ( CRT ) modifies Fiedler s basic contingency model by adding traits of the leader ( Fiedler and Garcia 1987 ).