Assignment 3: 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?
Submission Details
- Save your Microsoft Word document as LastnameFirstInitial_M1_A3.
- Be sure to follow APA rules for attributing sources. Use this APA Citation Helper as a convenient reference for properly citing resources.
- By the due date assigned, submit your document to the Submissions Area.
Assignment 3 Grading CriteriaMaximum
PointsExplained each of the six person-situation dyads.20Gave an example of how each person-situation dyad works.20Described the decisional process that a supervisor would use
with their employees within the context of each person-situation dyad.30Discussed which research design would be the best fit to study
the person-situation interaction within an office environment and why it is the best fit.10Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship
in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.20Total:100
