Assignment: Person-Situation Interaction
There are six ways in which a person and the situation interact to shape a person's goals, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
These are:
1. Different persons respond differently to the same situation.
2. Situations choose the person.
3. Persons choose the situation.
4. Different situations can prime different parts of the person.
5. Persons change the situation.
6. Situations change the person.
Tasks
Use your course readings and the Argosy University online library to research these dyads. In a Microsoft Word document of at least 500 words, address the following.
• Discuss what is meant by each of these dyads.
• Provide an example of how each one works.
• Assume you are a supervisor. How would you work within each of these situations with your employees to increase employee motivation?
• How would your decisions be affected by each person-situation dyad?
• Assume that you are an industrial/organizational consultant brought into the same office as asked to study these person-situation interactions in order to advise management how to best put them to use to increase employee motivation which research design would you use?
• Why is this design the best fit for this office situation?
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also Include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.