Managers with a Task-Leadership Style Would Be Most Likely to

question 135

Multiple Choice

Managers with a task-leadership style would be most likely to

• A) mediate a conflict between two argumentative employees.
• B) give employees a high degree of freedom to develop their own work procedures.
• C) remind employees of the exact deadlines for the completion of work projects.
• D) avoid closely monitoring the productivity of individual employees.

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Definitions:

Signalling Theory

Job applicants interpret their recruitment and selection experiences as cues or signals about unknown characteristics of a job and an organization and what it will be like to work in an organization.

Harshness

The quality of being extremely strict or severe in conditions or treatment.

Perceptual Biases

Cognitive biases that result from the simplification of processing social realities, often leading to distorted interpretations.

Central Tendency

The tendency to assign most ratees to middle-range job performance categories.