Organizational behavior and leadership

Org Behavior

Joel is a manager at a small real estate firm. He spends his free time playing golf and poker with his friends, some of who are firm members. Joel is an active member of several charitable organizations, and serves on the board of directors for several local committees dedicated to issues such as the environment and civil justice. His passion for real estate is also matched by his holding several personal investment properties around the country. Joel's personality combines high self-efficacy and self-esteem with a steadily positive affect. His locus of control is strongly internal, and Joel can readily be described as being a principled person with a strong sense of ethical responsibility. In both his personal and professional life, Joel has demonstrated respect for others and a willingness to accept his own shortcomings and improve on them.

A high sense of self-efficacy, self-worth, and self-esteem ensures Joel's ability to initiate and close deals. Because of his stellar performance in real estate, the firm Joel works for promoted him to the position of manager after only two years of service. Other employees and real estate sales personnel at the firm have positive things to say about Joel, indicating that he has amicable relations with his coworkers and subordinates. Although Joel passed several other members of the firm for the position of manager, no animosity is evident between coworkers. Joel's sense of self-worth is not based on his having to be better than other people, but simply on his awareness of his abilities to run a successful real estate agency. Joel has also proven his ability to manage a team of salespersons while keeping in mind the core goals of the company. His sense of self-efficacy is rooted in hard work. Some of the firm's goals are to maintain a reputation for ethical responsibility. Joel has taken an active role in ensuring the ethical standards his firm has become known for. By spearheading efforts to reward ethical behavior, Joel has proven himself able to continually raise the standards with which his company conducts business transactions.

As a team leader and a successful sales manager, Joel depends on possessing a positive affect as much as possible throughout each day. However, Joel has an active social life too and must take care to balance his work concerns with his social obligations without letting one interfere with the other. Married with two children, Joel has built a happy family life. He also engages in a number of recreational activities that engage both body and mind including golf and poker playing. Becoming active in recreational activities helps Joel maintain a positive affect in the workplace.