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    This document discusses an organizational behavior case study presented to students. The case involves a recent MBA graduate, Ajay, who is facing harassment and attempts to be forced to resign from his new job by his boss, who only has a BCom degree. Students are asked to suggest possible reasons for the boss's negative behavior and advice for Ajay. Some potential reasons discussed are the boss having low self-esteem, perceptual errors about Ajay's qualifications, and personal problems. Advice for Ajay includes gathering more information, avoiding reaction or resignation, and potentially discussing the issues with higher management if needed.

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    This document discusses an organizational behavior case study presented to students. The case involves a recent MBA graduate, Ajay, who is facing harassment and attempts to be forced to resign from his new job by his boss, who only has a BCom degree. Students are asked to suggest possible reasons for the boss's negative behavior and advice for Ajay. Some potential reasons discussed are the boss having low self-esteem, perceptual errors about Ajay's qualifications, and personal problems. Advice for Ajay includes gathering more information, avoiding reaction or resignation, and potentially discussing the issues with higher management if needed.

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    An Organizational Behaviour Caselet

    Research · June 2016


    DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.4273.3684

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    An Organizational Behaviour Case Study
    (http://pathikvariya.blogspot.in/2008/08/o
    rganizational-behaviour-case-study.html)
    I had developed this small caselet for OB exams some year back.
    Thought it'd be a good idea to share it and have feedback of the
    readers! Feedback may be sent at pvariya@gmail.com
    ========================================================
    Center for Management Studies
    Dharmsinh Desai University
    Nadiad

    Subject: Organizational Behavior

    Faculty Member: Pathik B. Variya

    Dear all,

    Can you please suggest some possible answers to this caselet?

    Question:

    Ajay, 23 year old, fresh MBA with HR, starts his career has a junior
    HR executive at Raj Manufacting House. His boss is a simple
    B.Com. degree holder with 4 years of handy experience. He does not
    like Ajay’s joining the company and therefore tortures him by
    different ways. He wants Ajay to resign so he almost harasses him
    by playing politics in background. Ajay comes to know about this. If
    you were a consultant, what advice would you give him? What is
    the reason for the boss’ negative behavior?

    Answer:

    1) Problems: Two problems have been clearly mentioned in the


    question 1)The reason for boss’ negative behaviour 2) The problem
    of Ajay, who is to be consulted.
    2) Assumptions: Here, no information has been given about the
    background of boss like how he has been as a boss in the past and
    how has been his score of performance appraisal. Therefore, we
    assume that the boss has not been a successful one and he
    generally misbehaved with the juniors. We also assume that Ajay is
    a hard-working, committed and talented employee.
    3) Probable reasons’ for boss’ negative response: 1) His self-
    image is low in his own eyes and his perception of looking-glass
    image in the eyes of Ajay seems to be negative. All these things
    indicate that his self-esteem is at the lower side right now. He
    seems to have a perception that this situation is existing due to
    Ajay and thus, he is behaving negatively. 2) He may be having a
    perceptual error namely Halo Effect. The MBA degree of Ajay may
    be its reason 3) Other perceptual errors could be also playing some
    role like recency or primacy. If Ajay has made a mistake recently or
    if Ajay’s first impression is not good in the eyes of the boss, that
    impression may be the reason for bad behaviour. 4) Other problems
    related to personality cannot be denied having an existence as a
    reason for boss’ negative behaviour.
    4) Possible solution or advice for Ajay: First of all, Ajay should try
    and find out the “reality” about the boss’ real personality by
    enquiring about it. He should avoid building any wrong negative
    perception for the boss. Ajay should never leave the job immediately
    or should restrain from any reaction. The boss may be tasting him
    too! As many boss adopts this style in the beginning while dealing
    with an employee to control him in the long run. The boss may have
    his own personal problems too. Based on the findings, Ajay should
    decide whether to continue the job or leave it or talk to boss
    “directly” or go to higher authorities. Meanwhile, he should practice
    stress-relieving exercises!

    Source: http://pathikvariya.blogspot.in/2008/08/organizational-
    behaviour-case-study.html

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