Question

Chung manages his employees by carefully monitoring their production, comparing what they do to predicted schedules and desired budgets. Chung can best be described as a ________ leader.
A. servant
B. task-oriented
C. transformational
D. relationship-oriented
E. charismatic

Answer 1

Answer: Task oriented

Explanation:

Chung is a task oriented leader who judges his subordinates performance based on their results. A task oriented leader is majorly concerned about his workers output and that majorly forms the basis of his workers assessment.

Answer 2

Answer:

B. Task-oriented leader

Explanation:

Task and Relationship Oriented Leadership

Forsyth describes a model of leadership that is based on the performance or relationship maintenance behaviour of the leader. A leader who is more interested in performance maintenance is a task oriented leader while one interested in building relationships is a relationship-oriented leader

Task Oriented Leaders

The focus of these leaders is to get tasks accomplished to foster the achievement of set out goals. Their goal orientation as leaders supersedes their concern for employee welfare. Their analytical and problem-solving and strategic focus is to come up with ways and solutions to company goal and objectives.

Task oriented leaders effectively define tasks, structures, they organise and ensure they monitor the activities of their team members in order to achieve desired outcomes.

Chung carefully monitors the goals of organisation by comparing the production or output of his employees with their predicted budgets and schedules. Chung is a task-oriented leader.