How would you relate substitutes, trust, and online leadership? ...

[soccerdreamer_17]

How would you relate substitutes, trust, and online leadership?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Unionized machinists who perform essential jobs at a boat manufacturing plant decide to strike for higher wages. As a result, the plant is forced to shut down until an agreement can be reached. The labor union is most likely using a strategy of ________.
 
  A) union salting
  B) pulling the union through
  C) public awareness campaigns
  D) strategically located union members

[essyface1]

Answer to Question 1

Online leadership involves leading people who are physically separated from you and with whom you communicate electronically. As face-to-face interactions are missing in such situations, substitutes for leadership, like experience, training, explicit formalized goals, rigid rules and procedures, are vital. However, the leader's ability to establish identification-based trust through electronic messages is a crucial function, and often the success of a virtual team may be hindered by the lack of this trust. Thus, substitutes can be used for online leadership, but the role of the leader cannot be dismissed.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: D