Application of Person- Situation Debate

Question 1

What could cause these issues from a
situation perspective?

Answer 1

skill variety,
task identity,
task significance,
autonomy levels,
Feedback

Question 2

What about the person perspective?

Answer 2

• personality
• affectivity (emotion, personal attitudes towards the job)

Question 3

Conclusion of the Bandura Reciprocal Determinism Model (Theory to explain individual differences at work)*

Answer 3

• people are agentic operators in their lives: producers + products of social systems
• we select environments, and we change them
• We learn via modelling + extract the lessons and values that we think are important
  -These elements (environment, personality, behaviour) INFLUENCE our motivation at work (i.e. absenteeism, lateness).

Question 4

High work overload = more influenced by environmental factors
High work-home conflict = both environment and personality
High interpersonal conflict = more influenced by personality

Answer 4

• it’s a combination of one of the other!
• the difficulty is offering a specific solution
• the ideal solution may not be the one that people want (i.e., costly for implementing a new system, time consuming, draining, seen as more work).

Question 5

For example: diversity can help the organisation, we value, but what are we doing to improve this in the organisation

Answer 5

• relevant to ibus3104 diversity & inclusion