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Arctic Mining Consultants

Group Case Study
Organizational Behaviour
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March 7, 2013

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Table of Contents

Content | Page Number | Summary | 3 | Synopsis | 3 | Human Resource Significance | 4 | SWOT Analysis | 5 | Issues and Symptoms | 6 | Issue 1: Individual Behaviour, Personality and Values | 6 | Issue 2: Perception and Control | 8 | Issue 3: Emotions, Attitudes & Stress | 8 | Issue 4: Lack of Employee Motivation and Performance | 10 | Issue 5: Weak Applied Performance Practices | 11 | Issue 6: Weak Team Dynamics | 12 | Problem Analysis and Implications | 12 | What Should Be Maintained | 16 | Solutions
This permits tracking of individual performance and minimizes social loafing. | Weaknesses *
Parker’s leadership style is authoritarian and top-down * Parker’s personality is not congruent nor complementary to his subordinates * Millar’s performance and self-concept have suffered throughout the staking assignment * Parker wrongly assumes that everyone else should be able to perform at his level of performance * Parker lacks emotional intelligence and professional empathy * He also exhibits emotional distance over his team members * Millar displays poor job satisfaction and work performance * The team is subject to very stressful working conditions disrupting the team members’ work-life balance, and leading to a breakdown in team dynamics. * The team is subjected to strong work stressors, namely excessively high task demands; role conflicts and poor interpersonal relations. * Lack of employee motivation and performance * Improperly designed performance based rewards * Weak managerial and self-leadership strategies |

EXTERNAL ORIGIN | Opportunities * Provide adequate training and conflict mediation and document progressive discipline. * Conduct individual personality testing i.e. Myers-Briggs for team members and managers during the recruitment and team compilation process to ensure healthy