In 2015, I was notified by my supervisor that she was resigning and moving to another country. She informed me that I would receive a new supervisor, a male. Since I have been employed with the agency I haven’t had a male supervisor. I didn’t know how well I would work with a male. I thought maybe he would be difficult to communicate. Attributional style refers to the type of attributes that we tend to make for the events that occur to us. These attributes can be to our own characteristics (internal) or to the situation (external), but can also be made on other dimensions, including stable versus unstable and global versus specific (Stangor, 2014). I believed I used the internal attribute because my expectations of how he would be was
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He informed me of the years of experience he had and asked me how long have I worked for the agency. Seemed like small talk at first. I was already scheduled to go on vacation before he got on board. My vacation was already approved by my former supervisor. Once I went on vacation, my new supervisor decided to go to my program and look at all the records. He saw somethings that made him uncomfortable, not knowing the process and dynamics of the program. Once he discovered his issues with the records, he than informed the vice president and Sr. vice president of my division. When I came back from vacation I was notified by other colleagues on what he have done. Within a week after returning from vacation, he called me and wanted to meet to discuss his findings. Of course, I felt like I had to defend myself and explained to him what the program was about. At the end my attributes of him were more specific. I explained to him although, there is room for improvement on certain records, we are doing well in others and there will be a corrective …show more content…
The latest and fastest growing method for communication is e-mail (Keyton, 2017). If he would have sent me an email letting me know what his intention were, then the relationship would not have started sour. His communication was ineffective and it allowed me to be defensive. Culture has a lot to do with his behavior, before I met my new supervisor, my former supervisor stated that he came from another organization and worked for them for 25 years. This means that he had a system from his past experiences and expect that this system was in the new organization. Culture is that pattern of basic assumption that a given group has creates, found or developed during a learning process owing to problems with external adaption and internal integration (Laegaard, 2006). My supervisor practice one of the three parts of organizational culture, which is basic assumption. The culture’s underlying level of convictions, which are shared by the members of the organization (p. 85). Although, my supervisor was doing his job and investigating how the programs functions, he also created an uncomfortable hostile situation, which led to other stakeholders of the organization to believe that my program was not doing a great
He informed me of the years of experience he had and asked me how long have I worked for the agency. Seemed like small talk at first. I was already scheduled to go on vacation before he got on board. My vacation was already approved by my former supervisor. Once I went on vacation, my new supervisor decided to go to my program and look at all the records. He saw somethings that made him uncomfortable, not knowing the process and dynamics of the program. Once he discovered his issues with the records, he than informed the vice president and Sr. vice president of my division. When I came back from vacation I was notified by other colleagues on what he have done. Within a week after returning from vacation, he called me and wanted to meet to discuss his findings. Of course, I felt like I had to defend myself and explained to him what the program was about. At the end my attributes of him were more specific. I explained to him although, there is room for improvement on certain records, we are doing well in others and there will be a corrective …show more content…
The latest and fastest growing method for communication is e-mail (Keyton, 2017). If he would have sent me an email letting me know what his intention were, then the relationship would not have started sour. His communication was ineffective and it allowed me to be defensive. Culture has a lot to do with his behavior, before I met my new supervisor, my former supervisor stated that he came from another organization and worked for them for 25 years. This means that he had a system from his past experiences and expect that this system was in the new organization. Culture is that pattern of basic assumption that a given group has creates, found or developed during a learning process owing to problems with external adaption and internal integration (Laegaard, 2006). My supervisor practice one of the three parts of organizational culture, which is basic assumption. The culture’s underlying level of convictions, which are shared by the members of the organization (p. 85). Although, my supervisor was doing his job and investigating how the programs functions, he also created an uncomfortable hostile situation, which led to other stakeholders of the organization to believe that my program was not doing a great