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Griffin has been a new manager for a couple of weeks. Over time, he realizes his team likes to socialize during meetings, which tend to run long or veer off-topic. What can Griffin do to help keep the group on task? Encourage casual-dress every Friday. Discontinue meetings and communicate directly via email. Create a relevant agenda for every meeting and stay on point by re-directing non-work related topics back to agenda items. Implement a no dating policy amongst employees. Alejandro tends to naturally focus more on achieving the team’s goals and puts his efforts in to accomplishing these goals. What role and focus does Alejandro have within his team? Alejandro is focused on developing relationships within his team and has more of a socioemotional-specific role. Alejandro does not care about either his teammates or his team's accomplishments and has an indifferent role. Alejandro is focused on how well his team's physical resources, such as computers and printers, are taken care of. Therefore, he has a physical facilities specialist role. Alejandro is focused on accomplishing tasks and has more of a task-specialist role. Which of the following is the best example of a new manager exhibiting a task-specialist role? Inviting a colleague to lunch. Sending a birthday card to a subordinate. Speaking out in the interest of getting the best solution for the team. Joining the organization's spirit committee, in order to help celebrate employee birthdays.

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Question:- Griffin has been a new manager for a couple of weeks. Over time, he realizes his team likes to socialize during meetings, which tend to run long or veer off-topic. What can Griffin do to help keep the group on task?

Correct Answer:- Create a relevant agenda for every meeting and stay on point by re-directing non-work related topics back to agenda items.

Reason:- By having a well defined and clear agenda of meeting the members can be redirected to discuss the agenda rather than the other topics. A good agenda always keeps the focus of the members on the points to be discussed.

Question:- Alejandro tends to naturally focus more on achieving the team’s goals and puts his efforts into accomplishing these goals. What role and focus does Alejandro have on his team?

Correct Answer:- Alejandro is focused on accomplishing tasks and has more of a task-specialist role.

Reason:- As the main focus remains on accomplishing the goals of the team, the best way of doing this is to focus on the task. The team leader who mainly focuses on the accomplishment of the task is termed as task-specialist leader

Question:- Which of the following is the best example of a new manager exhibiting a task-specialist role?

Correct Answer:- Speaking out in the interest of getting the best solution for the team.

Reason:- By discussing the best probable solutions for the accomplishment of the tasks of a team, a manager can show that he is performing a task specialist role.