Napoleon Bonaparte: Fiedler's Contingency Theory Of Leadership

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Describe the characteristics of someone you consider a leader. In what ways might this person rely on his personal qualities to influence and motivate?

I. Introduction

Any person who is willing to become a leader in a collective or group must have several characteristics of a leader. Leader’s characteristic is determining the role of the leader, explains, why someone become a leader, when others following him. Leader’s characteristic is a complex of psychological characteristic, abilities and skills to cooperate with group, who are able to provide a successful implementation of goals and functions.

Napoleon Bonaparte a first Imperator of France has had the characteristics of a leader, was very active and self-confident person. It is almost more than two hundred years left after his death, but even today, many researchers interested in Bonaparte’s personality.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze a leader’s characteristics of Napoleon Bonaparte, by applying the Fiedler’s Contingency Theory of Leadership. We are interested on the issue of what kind of

Under this theory, the main contingencies, main relevance in identifying successful leadership, are the relationship between leader and subordinate, using the level of friendliness, trust, initiative and cooperation. It is also show the structure of instruction, generated by the facts and feature of what must be done (Hal, 2014. p.339). The definition of leadership which we are trying to show is considered more than once by many researchers, such as Rost (1993), Barker (2002), Winston. According to Winston (2006): “A leader is one or more people who selects, equips, trains, and influences one or more follower(s) who have diverse gifts, abilities, and skills and focuses the follower(s) to the organization’s mission and