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Training Period and Need for Achievement Case Study Questions
Read the article to answer questions (each question should be answered in 3-6 sentences)
1. Consider various need theories. What are Pamela
Jones’ underlying needs that motivated her? What
is the basis for your answer?
2. Given the comments that Jones received from her
first year trainers, what would she realistically
expect after finishing her training? What did she
get? Using expectancy theory, explain why the
situation would not be motivating for her.
3. Burns was given extra work and told it was priority
work, and he did it well. However, he was punished
for not doing his other work. Analyze this situation
according to reinforcement theory. What type of
behavior would you expect from Burns in this
situation, and why?
4. Pamela Jones was going to be transferred to
another position in a branch about 100 miles from
Vancouver. Do you think it is only her husband’s
work that makes her reluctant to take this position?
What other motivational elements could be influencing her attitude toward whether to accept the
new position? What could the company have done
to motivate her to want to take the job?
5. Considering what you know about each member of
the group, what type(s) of conflict would you
expect to exist in this group? How would the
group’s productivity likely be affected?
6. What stage of development does this group seem
to be in?
7. Keeping in mind issues discussed in this chapter,
what would you, as team leader, do now?
