Organizational Behaviour
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Task A
Scenario 1 (Inside Temasek Polytechnic)
We were sitting in for our usual lectures. As usual, I was looking around to see if others were
actually listening to lecture or doing there own things. A boy who sat in front of me in the lecture
hall caught my attention. He was constantly writing even when the lecturer stopped. I stretched
myself forward and saw him drawing on the table. I knew he wouldn\u2019t be listening to the lecture as
his body language was sluggish. Later on he even scribbled on the walls.
Key players: Boy (vandal), Victims (students who use the same room.)
Topic: Motivation
Concept: Alderfer\u2019s ERG Theory - Relatedness
His need to integrate into his circle of friends who vandalize motivated him to vandalize too. To be
similar and thus, regarded as one of them, he vandalized to show his loyalty for them.
Concept: McClelland\u2019s High Need for Affliation
His desire for close relationships with his group of friends who vandalize motivated him to behave in
the same way as them.
Topic: Personality
Concept: Internal Locus of Control
He thinks that as long as he vandalizes, his friends will acknowledge him. He believes close
relationships that he can have relies on how he behaves; he believes he is control of his own fate.
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