Identify the leader relationships error in each of the following situations. Suggest a better way to handle each.

a. Carole Fields’s boss compliments her on the report she submitted yesterday. She says,

“It was no big deal.”

b. When Rich Peaslee was promoted to supervisor, he told the other employees, “Now, remember, I was one of the gang before this promotion, and I’ll still be one of the gang.”

c. The second-shift supervisor observes that the first-shift employees have not left their work areas clean for the last three days. He complains to his manager about the lax supervision on the first shift.