Scenario (fictional): The following four employees have different attitudes towards their jobs and different job satisfa
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Scenario (fictional): The
following four employees have different attitudes towards their
jobs and different job satisfaction levels, which impact their
behavior on the job at this security products company. You are the
human resources (HR) director who is concerned with some employees’
behavior at work. Read the following background information on each
of the four employees and address all the checklist items.
Employee #1: Marketing product manager: He
experiences cognitive dissonance every time his boss tells him he
should not worry about the lower end of the market, saying “those
people don’t have much buying power,” when the company’s values
statement professes caring about the welfare of everyone
everywhere. He comes from a blue-collar family and resents his
boss’s attitude towards low-income groups. He is frequently late to
work because he has to take his two preschoolers to daycare. As a
result, his boss has given him a recent warning.
Employee #2: Engineer: She is in a highly
visible job developing new products that creates a lot of stress,
and she works 10- to 11-hour days, sometimes 6 days a week. She is
loyal but feels depressed by the constant, incessant workload. She
is starting to look at job openings online in her off hours because
her current long hours are starting to affect her marriage and she
does not get to see her children, ages 6 and 8, very often during
the weekdays.
Employee #3: Loading dock manager: This
young representative works the 12 a.m. – 7 a.m. shift. He does what
is required but complains in the employee break room about the
offices and work conditions when he is on break. His attitude is
that he can go elsewhere if things do not improve. The other
employees tend to agree with him when he complains. Lately, the
distribution supervisor has noted employees’ reduced effort on the
shift.
Employee #4: Distribution lead: She is the sole
Asian employee in the organization and feels isolated, as though
she is just a placeholder versus really making a recognized
difference in the organization. The company promotes itself as a
diverse organization, which she knows is not true. She feels
everyone expects her to fail, and few people engage with her
regularly, including her boss.
Checklist:
The four employees have different attitudes and levels of job
satisfaction.
*Scholarly sources have been put through a peer-review by
experts to ascertain that the content is original, supports any
statements or claims with viable research, etc.
If the work submitted for this competency assessment does not
meet the minimum submission requirements, it will be returned for
revision. If the work submitted does not meet the minimum
submission requirements by the end of the term, you will receive a
failing score.
following four employees have different attitudes towards their
jobs and different job satisfaction levels, which impact their
behavior on the job at this security products company. You are the
human resources (HR) director who is concerned with some employees’
behavior at work. Read the following background information on each
of the four employees and address all the checklist items.
Employee #1: Marketing product manager: He
experiences cognitive dissonance every time his boss tells him he
should not worry about the lower end of the market, saying “those
people don’t have much buying power,” when the company’s values
statement professes caring about the welfare of everyone
everywhere. He comes from a blue-collar family and resents his
boss’s attitude towards low-income groups. He is frequently late to
work because he has to take his two preschoolers to daycare. As a
result, his boss has given him a recent warning.
Employee #2: Engineer: She is in a highly
visible job developing new products that creates a lot of stress,
and she works 10- to 11-hour days, sometimes 6 days a week. She is
loyal but feels depressed by the constant, incessant workload. She
is starting to look at job openings online in her off hours because
her current long hours are starting to affect her marriage and she
does not get to see her children, ages 6 and 8, very often during
the weekdays.
Employee #3: Loading dock manager: This
young representative works the 12 a.m. – 7 a.m. shift. He does what
is required but complains in the employee break room about the
offices and work conditions when he is on break. His attitude is
that he can go elsewhere if things do not improve. The other
employees tend to agree with him when he complains. Lately, the
distribution supervisor has noted employees’ reduced effort on the
shift.
Employee #4: Distribution lead: She is the sole
Asian employee in the organization and feels isolated, as though
she is just a placeholder versus really making a recognized
difference in the organization. The company promotes itself as a
diverse organization, which she knows is not true. She feels
everyone expects her to fail, and few people engage with her
regularly, including her boss.
Checklist:
The four employees have different attitudes and levels of job
satisfaction.
*Scholarly sources have been put through a peer-review by
experts to ascertain that the content is original, supports any
statements or claims with viable research, etc.
If the work submitted for this competency assessment does not
meet the minimum submission requirements, it will be returned for
revision. If the work submitted does not meet the minimum
submission requirements by the end of the term, you will receive a
failing score.