Are People Like Chucks
1-3 Paper: Analyze Case Study In this paper, the reader will find the analysis of Sam and Chuck as a manager and as an employee. Throughout this paper the reader will see the opinions of the author as well as incorporating the textbook readings and various researched authors.
Are people like Chuck common? Seeing as how I am not in a managerial position, I cannot make an accurate assumption about how many ‘Chucks’ there are within an organization. I can only state the Chuck’s that I see. I would say that there is only one ‘Chuck’ among my group of tellers at work. She is just the one teller that uses any opportunity possible to do one of two things. The first, advance herself, or the second, look for situations that involve other tellers and use that to get them in trouble. I can …show more content…
Sam should seriously ask himself if one arrogant employee is worth the cost of hiring and retraining new employees. In an article by John E. Richardson and Linnea B. McCord (2001) they state, “Some bullies are obvious – they throw things, slam doors, engage in angry tirades, and are insulting and rude. Others, however, are much more subtle. While appearing to be acting reasonably and courteously on the surface, in reality they are engaging in vicious and fabricated character assassination, petty humiliations and small interferences, any one of which might be insignificant in itself, but taken together over a period of time, poison the working environment for the targeted individuals” (pg. 1). I would say that Chuck is not an obvious bully. I think that he does all of the right things in front of his manager, yet treats his coworkers very badly. This sort of communication patterns could start to upset dependable employees and either pave the way for inappropriate communications or make it easier for employees to
Are people like Chuck common? Seeing as how I am not in a managerial position, I cannot make an accurate assumption about how many ‘Chucks’ there are within an organization. I can only state the Chuck’s that I see. I would say that there is only one ‘Chuck’ among my group of tellers at work. She is just the one teller that uses any opportunity possible to do one of two things. The first, advance herself, or the second, look for situations that involve other tellers and use that to get them in trouble. I can …show more content…
Sam should seriously ask himself if one arrogant employee is worth the cost of hiring and retraining new employees. In an article by John E. Richardson and Linnea B. McCord (2001) they state, “Some bullies are obvious – they throw things, slam doors, engage in angry tirades, and are insulting and rude. Others, however, are much more subtle. While appearing to be acting reasonably and courteously on the surface, in reality they are engaging in vicious and fabricated character assassination, petty humiliations and small interferences, any one of which might be insignificant in itself, but taken together over a period of time, poison the working environment for the targeted individuals” (pg. 1). I would say that Chuck is not an obvious bully. I think that he does all of the right things in front of his manager, yet treats his coworkers very badly. This sort of communication patterns could start to upset dependable employees and either pave the way for inappropriate communications or make it easier for employees to