Tomas, manager of a 50-person engineering department, exhibits group maintenance behaviors; that is he ensures employee satisfaction, harmonious work relationships, and the department's social stability. However, his division manager, Stan, notes that Tomas' department rarely achieves its yearly goals, in terms of work speed, quality and accuracy, output, and compliance with company policies and requirements. How would you advise Stan to coach Tomas to perform his job at a higher level and to increase the performance of Tomas' organization

Tell Thomas to focus more on task performance behaviors.

Explanation:

The options are:

a. Tell Thomas to focus more on group maintenance behaviors.

b. Tell Thomas to focus more on participative leadership.

c. Tell Thomas to focus more on task performance behaviors.

d. Tell Thomas to focus more on democratic leadership.

e. Tell Thomas to focus more on social factors.

Based on the information given in the question, the answer will be for Thomas to focus more on task performance behaviors.

This will enable Thomas to know whether the employees in the department are performing their roles well or not. He already exhibits group maintenance behaviors and participative leadership. Therefore, option C will be the right answer.

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