Telecommuting has become a common practice for many organizations and employees. However, leading remote workers can be challenging. Assume you are the mid level manager of a small technology firm (This company deploys A.I. Software to Higher Education Institutions that can be utilized by administrative offices and academic departments) and you have allowed your workers to telecommute (work virtually).

Discuss in a one page narrative how the path-goal approach could be used in a virtual team.

Paragraph 1: How would you the leader, assess subordinate characteristics? Task characteristics?

Paragraph 2: How could you the leader, learn what obstacles employees face and how could you assist in removing obstacles or motivate employees to work through them?

Paragraph 3: How would the four types of leadership behaviors be expressed on screen or by phone?