As You Have Observed Your Department Manager and Her Interactions

question 70

Multiple Choice

As you have observed your department manager and her interactions with the department's employees, you have come to believe in LMX theory. Sarah and Joe get less of the manager's time. Sally gets fewer of the preferred rewards that the manager controls and John has a relationship with the manager based on formal authority interactions. Rebecca is trusted. Jennifer gets a disproportionate amount of the manager's attention and is more likely to receive special privileges
-According to LMX theory, the in-group is likely to be composed of ________.

• A) Rebecca and Jennifer only
• B) Jennifer only
• C) Rebecca only
• D) John, Rebecca, and Jennifer only
• E) Sarah, Joe, Sally, and John only

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