Kevin Manages a Group of Eight Project Engineers, All of Whom

question 71

Multiple Choice

Kevin manages a group of eight project engineers, all of whom have worked for the company for over five years. Almost every day, Kevin and Joe, Carlos, and Kim, who are three of his subordinates, go to the cafeteria and play bridge while eating lunch. Joe, Carlos, and Kim receive very good performance reviews and are typically given the most challenging projects. What theory best explains this situation?

• A) Transformational leadership
• B) LMX
• C) Transactional leadership
• D) House's path-goal theory
• E) Laissez-faire leadership

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Definitions:

Learning

The process of acquiring new understanding, knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences through experience or instruction.

Generalization

In operant conditioning, the tendency to make the learned response to a stimulus similar to that for which the response was originally reinforced.

Unconditioned Stimulus

An unconditioned stimulus is a stimulus that naturally triggers a response without the need for prior learning.

Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with an unconditioned stimulus, eventually comes to trigger a conditioned response.