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Refer to the Scenario Below to Answer the Following Questions

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Refer to the scenario below to answer the following questions.
Lightspeed.com (Scenario)
Edwin Edwards is a team leader for Lightspeed.com, an e-business that has employees in every global time zone. Some of the factors that the team has to contend with are deadlines, strong work ethic, creativity-innovation chain, high-speed turnaround, and professionalism. As team leader, Edwin sees team members via videoconference only a few times per year or via compressed video via Internet a few times more per year. A frustration that he is encountering himself is that he works with all of these people and does not have control over their "actual" work or the few organizational rules, regulations, and policies. Yet, due to the position he is in, he feels he gets all of their complaints. The team does not deal well when a member offers an "off-the-wall" solution to a team problem; team members seem to have more trouble with this than any other team-conflict issue) What he likes most about leading the team is that they seem to prefer getting their objective accomplished instead of wasting time trying to decide who should be doing what tasks.
-Edwin decided that his employees could benefit from __________, an OD technique designed to change behaviour through unstructured group interaction.

Definitions:

Fiedler's Contingency Model

A leadership theory proposing that effective leadership is dependent on the match between a leader's style and the degree to which the situation gives control to the leader.

Least-preferred Co-worker Scale

The Least-preferred Co-worker Scale is a psychological tool used to measure an individual’s leadership style based on their attitudes toward the least preferred co-worker.

Leadership Style

A recurring pattern of behaviours exhibited by a leader.

Laissez-faire Style

A leadership approach where subordinates are given autonomy in their decision-making and minimal direct supervision is provided.