How Emotions Are Working To Shape Peter’s Satisfaction And Performance

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1: Explain Peter’s job performance. Make sure to discuss specific examples of Task performance (both routine and adaptive) and Contextual performance (both Occupational Helping Behaviors and Counterproductive Behaviors)
After watching the movie titled Office Space, it is evident that Peter Gibbons works as a programmer at Initech. He is not happy with his life, as well as with his job, and is tired of the day-to-day routine and workload. Most often, he fails to accomplish his tasks, and his behavior at the office is annoying. After the news that a consultant would arrive to help everyone improve their performance, Peter, Michael, and Samir decide to express their dissatisfaction in a number of ways such as trashing the printer. One topic that this film shows is the occupational behavior. There is a clip that shows consultants interviewing an employee, which illustrates that the process of evaluating a candidate’s performance should be transparent. Peter Gibbons is gets disturbed knowing that things are not working as expected.
2 (a): What factors are impacting his satisfaction, think about all of the types of satisfaction discussed (Pay, Supervisor, coworker, etc.).
Peter Gibbons is a programmer, working for a company that is plagued by excessive management. He spends most of his time staring at his desk instead of doing anything productive, and it is the core factor that contributes to his job dissatisfaction. In addition, he seems to be tired of his indifferent boss. Mr. Bill Lumbergh is not ready to listen to any of his employees, including Peter Gibbons, and behaves arrogantly and rudely. Peter gets dumped by his girlfriend, and that hurts him a lot, impacting his performance to an extent. Lastly, ...