| LC control no. | n 50001270 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Fiedler, Fred E. (Fred Edward), 1922-2017 |
| Variant(s) | Fiedler, Fred Edward |
| Biography/History note | professor of psychology, Univ. of Illinois |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Seattle (Wash.) |
| Birth date | 1922-07-13 |
| Death date | 2017-06-08 |
| Place of birth | Vienna (Austria) |
| Field of activity | Organizational effectiveness Leadership |
| Affiliation | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University of Washington |
| Profession or occupation | Psychology teachers University and college faculty members |
| Found in | Fiedler, Fred Edward. Leader attitudes and group effectiveness, 1958 Fiedler, Fred Edward. Leader attitudes and group effectiveness, 1981, ©1958: title page (Fred E. Fiedler) Fiedler, Fred Edward. Improving leadership effectiveness, ©1983: CIP t.p. (Fred E. Fiedler) author's quest. (b. 7-13-22) Legacy.com website, viewed November 1, 2021 (Fred Edward Fielder, Ph.D.; emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Washington, died June 8, 2017, one month shy of his 95th birthday; born in Vienna, Austria; arrived in the United States at the age of 16; his education was interrupted for military service in Europe during WWII, but after returning in 1945 he completed his undergraduate degree and PhD in four years at the University of Chicago; professor of psychology at the University of Illinois and later at the University of Washington, where he held positions in the Department of Psychology and the School of Business; best known for his work in leadership, he ran his own research lab to study leadership effectiveness and published extensively. He was a prodigious worker and loved his field of study, of which he was a proud alumnus <https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/seattletimes/name/fred-fiedler-obituary?id=20033215> Wikipedia, viewed November 1, 2021 (Fred Fiedler; Fred Edward Field, July 13, 1922-June 8, 2017; joined the University of Illinois faculty in 1951; directory of the Group Effectiveness Laboratory at the University of Illinois from 1959 to 1969; business and management psychology at the University of Washington, holding positions in the Department of Psychology and the School of Business; he directed organizational research at the university from 1969 until his retirement in 1992) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Fiedler> |
| Associated language | eng |
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