Question

Trevor’s peers were surprised when he received a promotion and suddenly became their supervisor. They thought he was rather unreliable and weren’t sure he was up to the task. According to the contingency model, Trevor has
A. poor worker facilitation.B. unsuccessful leadership adaptation.C. low task structure.D. poor leader-member relations.E. weak position power.

Answer 1

Answer: (D) Poor leader-member relations

Explanation:

 In the poor leader member relationship, the member of the group are poor and the leaders focus are mainly shift away from the task in type specific group. It raises the poor conflicts and behavior in the relations of the group members.

The contingency model is one of the important business contingency theory which focus on the leadership effectiveness in the specific organization. This theory is mainly developed by the Fred fiedler.

Therefore, Option (D) is correct.