You are a new employee with Acme,Inc.Your supervisor has explained your job to you and has indicated that you will have a great deal of control over your job once you become proficient at it.He compliments your history of accepting responsibility and suggests that you are to feel free to offer constructive criticism about the way that your job is structured. As a Theory Y-type individual,your supervisor can be expected to do all of the following except:
A)assume that you will be internally motivated
B)assume that you want to do your job
C)monitor your work closely for signs that you are derelict
D)allow you freedom to do your job as you believe it should be done

Question

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The other choices (A, B, and D) are characteristics of a Theory Y supervisor who believes in the self-motivation and self-direction of employees. However, monitoring the work closely is a characteristic of a Theory X supervisor who believes that employees need to be closely monitored and controlled. Therefore, the supervisor in this scenario is not a complete Theory Y type.

You Are a New Employee with Acme,Inc