Marco makes a point of walking around the office each morning to touch base with subordinates about how they are doing, both personally and professionally. It is important to him to have personal and positive connections with them. Marco would be considered a task-oriented leader according to Fiedler's contingency model.

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Fiedler's contingency model classifies leaders as either task-oriented or relationship-oriented. Marco's focus on personal and positive connections indicates he is a relationship-oriented leader, not task-oriented.

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