Mt302 Unit 1 Assignment
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MT302 Organizational Behavior
Unit One: Case Incident 2
The Global Recession and Workplace Malfeasance
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The Global Recession and Workplace Malfeasance
It could easily be proven with the right set of data presented in the right light that the Global recession is causing people in the workplace to cause problems at an increased rate, and in a worst case scenario, go ‘Postal’ on other employees. This case study does not prove that a recession either impacts or does not impact misbehavior in the work environment, but it does make a strong point that due to the volume of reporting available in the media people might think that it does. The problem with the reporting available to the masses is that it is generally bias toward chaos because the real facts make for “a less sexy headline” (Robbins and Judge, 2011). In addition, many of the reports are press releases from companies who specialize in products designed to prevent such behavior from having an impact on organizations (Robbins and Judge, 2011). Companies like Symantec or MacAfee would profit greatly from widespread hysteria from business owners and decision makers in the Information Technology sector who might fall under the guise that their information was suddenly not safe, or better yet, that because of the poor economic conditions that they must beef up their security systems to prevent theft of intellectual property or other sensitive information by the hands of disgruntled employees.
If there is anything that can be learned from this case study, it is that the business press is just as fickle as the rest of our nationwide press, eager to please and happy to do whatever it takes to get the next big story. Sure, the data that they are presenting is not something you would find in the celebrity tabloids; it is all based on some factual information. That does not mean the business press won’t lean
MT302 Organizational Behavior
Unit One: Case Incident 2
The Global Recession and Workplace Malfeasance
**/**/****
The Global Recession and Workplace Malfeasance
It could easily be proven with the right set of data presented in the right light that the Global recession is causing people in the workplace to cause problems at an increased rate, and in a worst case scenario, go ‘Postal’ on other employees. This case study does not prove that a recession either impacts or does not impact misbehavior in the work environment, but it does make a strong point that due to the volume of reporting available in the media people might think that it does. The problem with the reporting available to the masses is that it is generally bias toward chaos because the real facts make for “a less sexy headline” (Robbins and Judge, 2011). In addition, many of the reports are press releases from companies who specialize in products designed to prevent such behavior from having an impact on organizations (Robbins and Judge, 2011). Companies like Symantec or MacAfee would profit greatly from widespread hysteria from business owners and decision makers in the Information Technology sector who might fall under the guise that their information was suddenly not safe, or better yet, that because of the poor economic conditions that they must beef up their security systems to prevent theft of intellectual property or other sensitive information by the hands of disgruntled employees.
If there is anything that can be learned from this case study, it is that the business press is just as fickle as the rest of our nationwide press, eager to please and happy to do whatever it takes to get the next big story. Sure, the data that they are presenting is not something you would find in the celebrity tabloids; it is all based on some factual information. That does not mean the business press won’t lean