A manager has decided to give a new task to an employee who tends to be insecure and may feel threatened by taking on a new task.

Use Exhibit 4.7 to identify the appropriate leadership style for this situation. Support your answer.

a.	Directive
b.	Supportive
c.	Participative
d.	Achievement-oriented

The path-goal model is used to determine employee objectives and to clarify how to achieve them using one of four leadership styles. It focuses on how leaders influence employees' perceptions of their goals and the paths they follow toward goal attainment. As shown in Exhibit 4.7 (an adaptation of the model), the situational factors are used to determine the leadership style that affects goal achievement through performance and satisfaction. House Path-Goal Leadership Model Qurtedy 16(2). 1971: 321329 Situational Factors Subordinate Subordinate situational characteristics are: 1. Authoritarianism is the degree to which employees defer to others, and want to be told what to do and how to do the job. 2. Locus of control (Chapter 2) is the extent to which employees believe they control goal achievement (internal) or if goal achievement is controlled by others (external). 3. Ability is the extent of the employee' ability to perform tasks to achieve goals Environment Environment situational factors are: 1. Task structure is the extent of repetitiveness of the job. 2. Formal authority is the extent of the leader's position power. Note that task structure and formal authority are essentially the iome as Fiedler's. 3. Work group is the extent to which coworkers contribute to job satisfaction of the relationship between followers. Note that House identifies work group as a situational variable. However, under the contingency framework, it would be considered a follower variable