Which of the following is a difference between fiedler’s contingency theory of leadership and the path–goal theory of leadership? a. the fiedler theory discusses leader style, followers and situation, and the rewards to meet followers' needs, whereas the path-goal theory discusses leadership style and group task performance. b. the fiedler theory states that a leader can adopt the four leader styles of directing, coaching, supporting, and entrusting, whereas the path–goal theory measures leadership style with the least preferred coworker scale. c. the fiedler theory made the assumption that new leaders could take over as situations change, whereas in the path–goal theory, leaders change their behaviors to match the situation. d. the fiedler theory enables leaders to diagnose both leadership style and organizational situation, whereas the path–goal theory focuses on the characteristics of followers as the most important element of the situation.

Sean lives in dallas and runs a business that sells boats. in an average year, he receives $722,000 from selling boats. of this sales revenue, he must pay the manufacturer a wholesale cost of $422,000; he also pays wages and utility bills totaling $268,000. he owns his showroom; if he chooses to rent it out, he will receive $2,000 in rent per year. assume that the value of this showroom does not depreciate over the year. also, if sean does not operate this boat business, he can work as a paralegal, receive an annual salary of $21,000 with no additional monetary costs, and rent out his showroom at the $2,000 per year rate. no other costs are incurred in running this boat business. identify each of sean's costs in the following table as either an implicit cost or an explicit cost of selling boats. implicit costexplicit costthe wages and utility bills that sean pays the rental income sean could receive if he chose to rent out his showroom the salary sean could earn if he worked as a paralegal the wholesale cost for the boats that sean pays the