In the case study of Juanita and Sandra, Juanita, a sales manager of Trumbell and Son, is struggling with Sandra who is a new employee on the sales team. Juanita is an effective manager who spends time to learn about what personalities, strength, and incidental details her employees have. Juanita can pull out employees best skill sets and internal incentives. On the other hand, Sandra’s inconsistent behavior made Juanita confuse about her personality. As a manager, Juanita feels uncomfortable about managing Sandra’s inconsistent personalities. This may be caused by the difference in behaviors and personalities between these two individual. According to the Team-Player Styles, we can see that Juanita is a communicator. A communicator is a great listener, always supportive, and focus on process (Ngo par.3). Juanita would often communicate with her employees for acquiring information and small detail by listening, talking, and observing them. She is very supportive of her employees maximizing their potential (Nelson and Quick 1). On the other hand, Sandra is a contributor in the Team-Player Styles, which means she is a task-oriented team member who can provide good information (Ngo par.1). We can see that Sandra …show more content…
Juanita exhibits the traits of extraversion and openness because of social interactions, gregarious, talkative, intellectually curious, and broadminded. She, furthermore, has an internal locus of control that refers to deal with the way people look at causation in their lives (Dubrin 229). Juanita has the ability to manage people in her team. Sandra personality traits include conscientious and agreeableness type because she is energetic, hard working, and socially adaptable with her workers (Cangage1). Sandra has an external locus of control because everything depends on surrounding people and influences (Dubrin
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs describes the five type of innate needs listed from the strongest needs at the bottom to the weakest needs at the top level as physiological needs, safety needs, belongingness and love needs, esteem needs, and self-actualization needs (Schultz & Schultz, 2013, p. 246). Juanita is a 42 year old single mother who has recently decided to go back to school to obtain a degree and become a mental health professional, but she is facing some internal turmoil and some of her needs are not being met. Analyzing Juanita’s situation with Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and other concepts, such as the Jonah complex, should help Juanita reach her goals, address the needs that are not being met in her current situation, and strive for
In this case, personality plays a major role in job satisfaction and job performance. People with positive self-valuations believe in their inner worth and basic competence but the protagonist Lyndon Brook had negative core self-evaluations because he did not believe in his own abilities and considered himself to be powerless when faced with challenging external environment. This ultimately led to his poor performance as he repeatedly pondered over his inexperience rather than taking the assignment as a career advancing opportunity.
Linking to sexism, we move on to the case of Pamela George where the characteristic of discrimination occurred. This case is about a young lady who is the mother of two children living in Saskatchewan, and occasionally is a prostitute for monetary purposes, so that she could provide more goods for her kids. In December 1996, two men beat her to death. In Canada, the law claims that it is blinded from discrimination and every person has the right to be free from any sort of racial discrimination. The Official Version of Law claims to be impartial, meaning that it’s un-biased, is objective, meaning to not have any personal feelings or opinions and also to be neutral, meaning to not have any sides during a conflict, person, etc. George was murdered because she was and ‘Indian’ or as some would say an ‘aboriginal’. This is a form of discrimination as George is being treated negatively due to her race and color. During trial, the judge would always call her “the hooker” instead of calling her by her first name, being objective and discriminating her existence and social beings. The men were called “the boys” because they were ‘white’, whereas the aboriginal young lady would have
When engaging in the controversy surrounded around Sandra Bland’s arrest and followed death, one quote comes to mind, “ Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation”(Oscar Wilde). While numerous speculations have been created; for the most part America has divided into two perspectives. Those who believe this case is a suicide with a dash of coincidental, and those who believe this case is a homicide with racial intentions. Many ruling Bland’s case a homicide with racial intentions are treating the case like an axiom; however, this is a unique case that requires more than a glance over social media. Others look at this case blind due to racial beliefs and stereotypes. After conducting a personal investigation, I found error on both sides of the case.
As we all know and experience at some point in our lives, some individuals are just easier to deal with than others are. Interpersonal problems are more prevalent when difficult people are involved, and this is particularly true and most noticeable in the workplace. When personality traits, attitudes, perceptions, feelings, mannerisms, and behavior differ from our own, we can expect conflict and tension. Hosmer (2011) stated this well:
This case study focuses on the interaction between Juanita, the sales manager and the new employee, Sandra. Juanita is an effective manager skilled at observing behaviors and as a result has brought out the best from her employees by matching them to projects that play to their strengths. However, Juanita is continuously surprised by Sandra’s inconsistent personality and is now wondering if Sandra is truly a good fit for Trumbell and Son (Cengage 1). This paper will examine a deeper understanding into both Juanita and Sandra’s behavioral and personality styles to both explore Juanita’s difficulties and evaluate her options in this dilemma.
It is well known that there are many personality tests that attempt to divide individuals in certain categories, or personality types, and who are also believed to include many qualities that help shape leadership. Even though, most of these personality tests do not fully accomplish or are successful at accurately stating an individuals personality type, due to the complexity of human nature, there has to be an understanding of the importance of personality in leadership. The understanding of personality depends only on the individual’s introspection, his or her approach...
With this approach, scoring her on the five dimensions of the Trait Perspective could capture Marilyn’s personality. In assessing Marilyn’s traits, it would be easy to grade her on the different dimensions of personality. In applying “The Big Five Model”, Marilyn would score low in conscientiousness and agreeableness and highest in the traits of extroversion, openness, and neuroticism (Friedman & Schustack, 264). Marilyn created an outgoing persona that belied her true personality where she was able to hide her depression and insecurities that in turn enabled her substance abuse. On the surface Marilyn appeared to have it all, but in always looking to find herself Marilyn became erratic and unstable not only in relationships, but also in her work. Her instability contributed to her impulsiveness and lack of dependability allowing Marilyn’s career to quickly suffer and her life to spiral out of control ultimately leading to her
In Mr. Brzoska’s class I had to choose four essays to analyze for figurative language. I dreaded the thought of having to read twelve essays, nor did I believe that I would enjoy the readings. When selecting the essays, I was driven by curiosity. I chose DON’T EAT BEFORE READING THIS by Anthony Bourdain, SANDRA BLAND AND OR VULNERABLE BODIES constructed by Roxane Gay, WHY WE CRAVE HORROR MOVIES by the famous Stephen King. Lastly, I selected FROM JAMAICA TO MINNESOTA TO MYSELF written by Marlon James.
Team Dynamics is how a group of two or more that works together for a common goal. One definition of a team is: two or more individuals associated in some joint action. (Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary (1976). In the business & education world, these joint actions should have some mission or objective that achieves results like a research paper. My Team C has come together with a common goal: Writing a successful paper for week 5 on “What safeguards exist currently to ensure academic honesty & are they working?” For this to be possible we must learn how to work as a team.
Team Dynamics - Conflict Resolution Strategies People work in groups or teams every day, whether in their career, education, political organization, church, or any other social setting. Conflict while working in teams or groups is inevitable. When taking people of different backgrounds, personalities, moral and ethical beliefs, and putting them together in a group, conflict will arise. The key to achieving your team goals is to construct and conquer your goals while keeping the greater good of the team in mind. Conflict, as it arises, should be combated and abated through swift and thorough resolution techniques.
Moreover, job performance, education, knowledge, and training tend to mold each individual in a distinctive way and unfortunately, some personalities just do not mix. For instance, it is obvious that some of the senior partners just did not agree with Mike Roth’s personality and aggressive nature, which caused a colossal clash within the firm. Informal deficiencies occur when there is some sort of break down in communications in regards to any type of workplace environment.
In this paper, I will write my answers to questions pertaining to Case 7, Mary Corey and Case 16, Kathy’s temper. These found in the textbook The Management Training Tool Kit.
Mindy possesses many quirky personality traits, and often finds herself in perplexing situations. Mindy possesses many characteristics in which I am led to believe that she is high on extraversion. She enjoys making quality connections between her cliental and co-workers. She exhibits many traits of being high on extraversion due to the fact that she is social, affectionate, and loving. Mindy is low on conscientiousness because her life is overall disorganized, and she often shows out spurts of carelessness. Although she is organized within her professional life, she leans more towards being disorganized within the other aspects of her life. This ultimately helps her characteristics lean more towards being low on conscientiousness. Mindy is high in openness to experience because she is imaginative and independent. She often makes rash decisions, and shows signs of creativity often. She also shows that she in independent within her professional and personal life by being a successful business woman and having her own apartment. In regards to agreeableness, Mindy seems to fall evenly in between on the model scale. She shows traits of being softhearted and overly-trusting, but also exhibits signs of being uncooperative and often suspicious of peoples’ intentions. Mindy often finds herself experiencing self-pity and allows her insecurities to play a major
Secondly, an evaluation of an employee’s personality helps the manager in his leadership approach of that employee. Thirdly, perceptions can be the deciding factor of whether or not a candidate is hired or promoted. Managers can use personality characteristics to form work teams or to make determinations on job placements. Chapter 4 Review Questions 1. How are attitudes formed?