Understanding Management (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Richard L. Daft, Dorothy Marcic
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 1, Problem 15SL
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The situation: "Talking about ideas or concepts can get me really enthusiastic or excited."
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In this situation, there is a need to explain the behaviour or outlook of mine towards talking about ideas or concepts and if I get me really enthusiastic or excited about them.
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Job satisfaction is a positive feeling about a job. This is a subjective phenomenon; still there are lots discrete factors that play an important role in job satisfaction. Read the below mentioned situation and answer the questions accordingly.
Mr. Usman has recently joined a car manufacturing company as a sales representative. He is talented, proactive, punctual, hardworking and always able to meets the sales targets. Unfortunately, his supervisor Mr. Bilal has personal grievances with him. He always tries to let him down by finding and forwarding even small errors to the higher management. On contrary, the other employees of the same department are praised and rewarded promptly. This situation affected Mr. Usman deeply when few subordinates got the promotions. As a result, he loses his interest in the job that result in excessive absenteeism and low efficiency.
Looking at the case of Mr. Usman:
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