Neither James nor Bonnie is more likely make it to upper management.
While Bonnie has strong time management skills, she is too passionate to respect coworker’s work. In addition, doing things efficiently is her first priority. She prefers to save time, but this is the best next thing, as James stated “He didn’t see any advantage to constantly being so critical and rushed all the time.” Her behavior obviously created a stressful environment for James. The more she rushes coworkers, the more her coworkers would make a mistake. The more coworkers make a mistake, the more she has stress. Her inpatient behavior will spread to the office; a climate of the office would be negative. She should recognize true success takes patience.
Unlike Bonnie, James seems to be nice and calm. He identifies himself that he works slowly, but …show more content…
Think of the personality behaviors discussed in this chapter, what characteristics would lead you to categorize Bonnie and James as either type A, type B or hardy?
I categorized Bonnie as type A because she is aggressive, impatient, and with high stress levels. James’s personality is nearly type B because he seems to be more flexible, more relaxed, and less time-urgent than Bonnie, but he looks calm outside but agitated inside.
3. Does Bonnie seem stressed? If so, from what sources (major life changes, daily hassles, chronic stressors, internal stress, or external stress)? If not, why?
Bonnie seems stressed from both internal and external sources. Her internal stressors are her aggressive personality and perfectionist, and her external stressors are dead lines of her team’s tasks and James’s behavior in this story. The central causes of her stress seems to be her irrational belief system that she believes that she must be suitable as a supervisor and achieving in all respects so as to be promoted to upper management; she thinks that James must be competent and adequate in all his tasks or else he is an inadequate, valueless
While Bonnie has strong time management skills, she is too passionate to respect coworker’s work. In addition, doing things efficiently is her first priority. She prefers to save time, but this is the best next thing, as James stated “He didn’t see any advantage to constantly being so critical and rushed all the time.” Her behavior obviously created a stressful environment for James. The more she rushes coworkers, the more her coworkers would make a mistake. The more coworkers make a mistake, the more she has stress. Her inpatient behavior will spread to the office; a climate of the office would be negative. She should recognize true success takes patience.
Unlike Bonnie, James seems to be nice and calm. He identifies himself that he works slowly, but …show more content…
Think of the personality behaviors discussed in this chapter, what characteristics would lead you to categorize Bonnie and James as either type A, type B or hardy?
I categorized Bonnie as type A because she is aggressive, impatient, and with high stress levels. James’s personality is nearly type B because he seems to be more flexible, more relaxed, and less time-urgent than Bonnie, but he looks calm outside but agitated inside.
3. Does Bonnie seem stressed? If so, from what sources (major life changes, daily hassles, chronic stressors, internal stress, or external stress)? If not, why?
Bonnie seems stressed from both internal and external sources. Her internal stressors are her aggressive personality and perfectionist, and her external stressors are dead lines of her team’s tasks and James’s behavior in this story. The central causes of her stress seems to be her irrational belief system that she believes that she must be suitable as a supervisor and achieving in all respects so as to be promoted to upper management; she thinks that James must be competent and adequate in all his tasks or else he is an inadequate, valueless