Assignment: Answer these essay questions:

1. Would you rather have a manager who regularly displayed a wide range of emotions and moods or one that showed little to no emotions or moods on a daily basis? Explain how the difference in the two would affect how you handled the situation in which you had to tell that manager that your coworker has been sexually harassing you and another employee.

2. Research 3-5 high profile and successful business people who have been in the international news – both those famous for doing well and those famous for not doing well. Based on what you know of these people , use the Big Five traits to write a short personality profile for each. Then explain how each personality fits – or does not fit – with that person’s business profile.

3. list the dominant work values you think the generation after the “Nexters” will have, and why. Include a solid rationale of why you think what you do, including a sound reflection on the dominant work values of the other generations in the figure.

4. We all use shortcuts in making judgments about others. (I.e., assuming a woman in scrubs is a nurse, and a man in scrubs is a doctor.) As the world continues to get ‘flatter” and diversity increases do you think this will get better or worse? Why? How will you work to try to minimalize this in your own life? Include stories about a few times you have taken shortcuts to make judgments – either in your professional life or your personal life – and what the results were. Also share stories about times you were the one being judged and what the outcome of this was.