I. Introduction The case study focuses on an employee, Paul Keller, who is being affected by a number of factors. His job performance is hindered by constraints such as his work environment, his home environment, stressors, mood, and the management style of his superior. The case study demonstrates how his job performance is affected and what the consequences could be as a result of his poor job performance and lack of concentration. II. Problems Paul is not able to perform his job well due to, in his opinion, being tired. The conversations with his wife that replays in his thoughts show how he is conflicted at home. He apparently does not have a strong, supportive home environment. The case study also shows that he does not receive …show more content…
It now looks as though he experiences more negative emotions because he now views his life more negatively. Paul sounds as though he is suffering from burnout. Burnout is a syndrome of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion coupled with feelings of low self-esteem or low self-efficacy (Greenberg, 2010). His low self-esteem shows that he does not place a high overall value on himself and his low self-efficacy shows that he does not believe in his ability to perform tasks successfully. According to Greenberg in his text, Managing Behavior in Organizations, the symptoms of burnout include physical exhaustion, emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and feelings of low personal accomplishment. As a result, his negative affectivity is heightening his stressors and that further induces is negative mood, heightened strain, burnout, and poor job performance. The next constraint to his job performance is the leadership style and characteristics of his superior. His superior sounds as though he does not exhibit interpersonal skills. The case study states that he would call Paul into his office and ask of him what the problem was but he wouldn’t really want to listen. It also states that his superior read weakness into any personal problems so the workers were to keep their personal life separate from their work life. The case study also portrays that the type of rewards or punishment that his superior offers is negative reinforcement. Negative reinforcement is
S.P. is admitted to the orthopedic ward. She has fallen at home and she has sustained an intracapsular fracture of the hip at the femoral neck. The following history is obtained from her: She is a 75-year-old widow with three children living nearby. Her father died of cancer at age 62; mother died of heart failure at age 79. Her height is 5’3 and weighs 118 pounds. She has a 50 pack year smoking history and denies alcohol use. She has severe Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) and had an upper GI bleed in 1993 and had Coronary Artery Disease with CABG 9 months ago. Since that time, she has engaged in “very mild exercise at home.” Vital signs are 128/60, 98, 14, 99 degree farenheight (32.7 degrees C) SAO2 94%
The applicants are morally correct as long as their action promotes their long term interest. If their action produces or will produce for them a greater outcome of good, versus evil in the long hall than any other alternative, than that action is the right one to act on, and the individual should take that to be a moral act. An Assessment of Morality by Ethicsinbusiness.net
Many of the problems that Carl has found concerning the new employee orientation could have been avoided. Carl is a recently hired employee himself. He should have kept up with the progress of the new employee orientation and checked on the files for the applicants. ABC, Inc. should also have made sure that their new employee was capable of doing his job efficiently. If Carl had stayed on top of his project, the problems that he faced would not have occurred.
The case-control study was used for HIV infection and fracture risk to explore the existing association between these diseases and excess risk of clinical features. The studies have reported an association between HIV infection, antiretroviral therapies, and reduce bone metabolism; the fracture risk data impacts are insufficient. The data from Danish National health service registries by conducting a case-control study, including 124,655 fracture cases and 373,962 age and gender matched controls. The cases and controls were arising from the same population and controls were selected randomly for each case up to 3 controls, and the incident cases were selected. The confidence intervals 95% and odds ratio were estimated using conditional logistic regression. In this
on, Paul becomes incapable to deal with the death of his comrades. In addition, he is unable to have the same sensations and feeling with his family back home. He cannot express himself about the experiences and through what he went during war. On top of that Paul says that he does not see a peacfully futur and that he has memory troubles, to remember everything in the last years. However, Paul’s sensitivity makes him not being able to separate his feelings with himself entirely. In the novel there are specific moments where we observe the emotions of Paul coming up, for instance when he is with his sick mom spending some time together, but also his comrades death, Kat and Kemmerich. Another time in the novel Paul states, “Parting from my friend
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In today's society, we continually see an influx in immigrants on an annual basis. The majority of these immigrant students are subsequently placed in English as a Second Language (ESL) courses due to their low skill level in the English language. Have ESL students in the classroom certainly raises more questions than it does answers, as teachers are faced with various new situations in helping ESL students better understand not only the English language, but the English culture as well. Another difficulty that is faced is exactly what methods teachers need to be implementing in their goals of better acclimating students to the English language. The school board needs to allow
This course has been very helpful, especially the last questions on the Case Study Critique essay question. I struggled to answer this question because I never take the time to identify my biases. Every time I hear the word biased, the first thing that comes to mind is the negative biases; unfair treatment, prejudice, etc., and I am not the type of person who would treat someone unethically based on where they from etc., their sexual preferences, religion, etc. However, the feedback from the professor gave me a different perspective and I have realized that although I might not truly be unfair to a person, it would be uneasy assisting certain people. It would be very uncomfortable for me to assist, in cases such as child abuse physical or sexual
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In early April, ABC Inc., needed to recruit several new hires. These new trainees needed to be ready to work by June 15. During this case study we will discuss the problems that the company and its workers had to confront. Carl Robins had been hired six months earlier as the campus recruiter. He had just graduated from a community college and was extremely excited to commence his work at ABC Inc. Carl was known as an industrious man, who had to work his way through to college. Coming from a low income family, Carl had to attend school and work full time to pay for his education. This was Carl’s big opportunity to begin his lifelong journey. Monica Carrolls had worked for ABC Inc., for more than 25 years as
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