This question has two parts; be sure to answer both. First, explain the contingency viewpoint, explaining what it means. Next, suppose you are a literary agent running your own business. You represent a large number of successful writers, and you have made it clear on your website that you are no longer taking on new writers as clients. One day a person you respect tells you about an unpublished writer who is simply fantastic and has the makings of an incredibly successful novelist. If you adopt the contingency viewpoint, what is your response? What would your response be if you do not believe in the contingency viewpoint?
What will be an ideal response?
The contingency viewpoint emphasizes that a manager's approach should vary according to—that is, be contingent on—the individual and the environmental situation. The Contingency Viewpoint: What Are the Best Kinds of Benefits? provides a good example of the contingency viewpoint: Money is not the only motivator for employee productivity. Applying the contingency approach, managers have found there are incentives in offering various kinds of fringe benefits.
If you are a literary agent and you subscribe to the contingency viewpoint, your likely response to hearing about a talented new writer will be, "I already have more than I can manage, but I might really regret it if I let this new writer slip through my fingers. Maybe I should at least talk to the writer, and read his or her work, and be prepared to take him or her as a client if I love what I read. Somehow I'll find a way to make it work." If you do not subscribe to the contingency viewpoint, your response to your friend who tells you about a talented new writer is, "Sounds great, but I'm not taking on any new clients right now."
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