Jefferson Performance In The Workplace

The management department in a small college in the North East was having a meeting with everyone on the board committee. They were discussing the views on assistants and their help with the professors. There was no college policy on assistants and the head department told the head of the departments that they can make up their own individuals rules on their responsibilities. One of the faculty members uses assistants to help them grade work. Others do not think professors should be using them because they think it’s their job. However, many colleges around the Unites States use graduates “ to teach entire courses and to grades subjective papers and exams” (Lussier pg347). After the meeting, another member who said nothing during the meeting …show more content…
Organization behavior is the “
study of actions that affect performance in the workplace”. Jefferson performance in class with be suffered. Attribution is a concept that “the process of determining the reason for someones behavior and whether that behavior is situational or intention”. Perry is purposely finding flaws into having graduate assistants so that Jefferson cannot have one. Everyone in the department has a certain attitude which can be “positive or negative evaluation of people, things and situations”. No one wants to help Jefferson when she has requested to keep her grad assistant to help her grade objective exams. Not letting Professor Jefferson have an assent is going to cause problems for because she might be older and can not handle as much course work as she use to. Graduate assistant will be able to earn experience for the future as they are helping other …show more content…
In the college, Jefferson. Perry and Weston are faculty members are there is not workplace behavior or integrity. There should acceptable behavior guidelines that “ typically address topics, such as harassment, work attire and language” among others. (Amico). The integrity of the college is to be “honest and doing the right thing at all times” (amico). Teamwork is “a vital aspect of the workplace” by working well with others. That would include peers, supervisors and customers. Jefferson and Perry do not work well together because they cannot come up with a solution for Jefferson’s graduate assistant. Also, Weston does not feel conformable talking to his “peers” that “he agreed that forbidding her to use graduate assistants for grading exams would not be fair”. Weston feels as if she cannot speak up because she might be scared she will