You have been working at your job for over a year. your boss starts offering you new assignments with weekly meetings in order to exchange valuable information regarding the tasks. the result is that you and your boss are able to redefine your working relationship and find new ways of relating. according to the lmx theory, you are now in a _____ role.

First of all, the Leader-Member Exchange or LMX is a theory that focuses in the relationship between the manager of an organization and his followers. The theory basically states that the leaders develop an exchange with their subordinates and that the differences of how those leaders treat to each of their subordinates tends to influence the fact of how they currently act.

Secondly, there are differents roles according to this theory. One of them is the ''role-making'' that establish that team members that were already joined to the group start to work on tasks and that shows the loyalty and effort that every subordinate put into it therefore creating an atmosphere where the manager tends to treat better to the ones that work harder according to the manager's expectations.