The lab case analysis introduces a variety of organizational behaviors and their effects on an individual, a group, and consequentially-the organization. In this case, Wally Wingnut’s behavior-after the arrival of Gabe Benson- gives rise to individual issues such as self-esteem, efficacy, locus of control, and many more. The Meson lab scenario also touches perception problems such as the fundamental attribution error, halo effect, stereotyping, that in one way or the other reduce organizational efficiency and performance.
• Core self-evaluation Researchers regard core self-evaluation to be one of the best dispositional predictors of job performance and satisfaction. The concept of core self-evaluation refers to the extent to which an individual’s …show more content…
People who are high in self-esteem by design welcome opportunities that can challenge and help them excel in that particular situation. On the other hand, individuals with low self-esteem, such as Wall Wingnut, perceive challenging opportunities as threats and tend to avoid them. Prior to the arrival of Gabe Benson, Wall Wingnut was a confident laboratory professional and leader. He seemed to do a great job leading his team, suggesting challenging solutions for Tucker transformers - taking the initiative to further the research in meson regulator. In the long run, Wingnut had a solid belief that he could do his job successfully. However, Benson’s arrival shook-up Wingnut’s generalized self-efficacy triggering low self-esteem traits that eventually led to Wingnut’s resignation. The case shows Wingnut’s inability to challenge Benson’s disputes on the progress the team had made. In displaying this behavior, Wingnut failed to proceed successfully on the task at hand and also to encourage his …show more content…
To accurately perceive others’ intentions, people need to be neutral in their interactions with others, especially if the interactions will continue in the future (such as coworker interactions). Research shows that social distance attributes for biases in internal attribution of behavior (i.e., we judge that people behave the way they do because of their traits); on the other hand, social closeness attributes behavior to external influences (i.e., judging someone’s behavior not based on situations out of one’s control). Thus, in social distance one can blame another for being ‘naturally bad’ even if the situation called for such a behavior, whereas when socially close favoritism can happen and an individual could overlook a person’s true traits by blaming the situation around the behavior. Because the distance we place between ourselves and others can affect how we perceive them, neutrality is encouraged. Not only in distance, but also feelings/impressions; for as noted before, either side of the spectrum (positive or negative) can lead to inaccurate perception of behavior in the future, for instance the halo effect and first-impression
• Core self-evaluation Researchers regard core self-evaluation to be one of the best dispositional predictors of job performance and satisfaction. The concept of core self-evaluation refers to the extent to which an individual’s …show more content…
People who are high in self-esteem by design welcome opportunities that can challenge and help them excel in that particular situation. On the other hand, individuals with low self-esteem, such as Wall Wingnut, perceive challenging opportunities as threats and tend to avoid them. Prior to the arrival of Gabe Benson, Wall Wingnut was a confident laboratory professional and leader. He seemed to do a great job leading his team, suggesting challenging solutions for Tucker transformers - taking the initiative to further the research in meson regulator. In the long run, Wingnut had a solid belief that he could do his job successfully. However, Benson’s arrival shook-up Wingnut’s generalized self-efficacy triggering low self-esteem traits that eventually led to Wingnut’s resignation. The case shows Wingnut’s inability to challenge Benson’s disputes on the progress the team had made. In displaying this behavior, Wingnut failed to proceed successfully on the task at hand and also to encourage his …show more content…
To accurately perceive others’ intentions, people need to be neutral in their interactions with others, especially if the interactions will continue in the future (such as coworker interactions). Research shows that social distance attributes for biases in internal attribution of behavior (i.e., we judge that people behave the way they do because of their traits); on the other hand, social closeness attributes behavior to external influences (i.e., judging someone’s behavior not based on situations out of one’s control). Thus, in social distance one can blame another for being ‘naturally bad’ even if the situation called for such a behavior, whereas when socially close favoritism can happen and an individual could overlook a person’s true traits by blaming the situation around the behavior. Because the distance we place between ourselves and others can affect how we perceive them, neutrality is encouraged. Not only in distance, but also feelings/impressions; for as noted before, either side of the spectrum (positive or negative) can lead to inaccurate perception of behavior in the future, for instance the halo effect and first-impression