Understanding Business
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Assume that you have just accepted your first job upon graduation from college. You are working as the manager of a group of manufacturing workers in a company that has had some financial problems. Workers have complained about being unfairly blamed for financial losses associated with the production process, and your predecessor quit as a result of grievances filed against him by his subordinates. Explain how you can use your understanding of attribution theory to be more effective in your personal perception of the causes of problems in your work unit, and in your personal communications about those problems to your new subordinates.
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