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The document is a case study submission by four students on the topic of whether there is a price for being too nice. It contains three questions and answers about the contradiction between what employers want in employees and what employees do best, situations where agreeableness is important or harmful, and why agreeableness may negatively impact men's earnings more than women's.

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Case Study OB

The document is a case study submission by four students on the topic of whether there is a price for being too nice. It contains three questions and answers about the contradiction between what employers want in employees and what employees do best, situations where agreeableness is important or harmful, and why agreeableness may negatively impact men's earnings more than women's.

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Is there a price for being too

nice?
Case study
Organizational behavior.

Submitted by
Taskeen rizvi
Shinza khan
Laiba Zaman
1

Raabia Riaz
BBA ITM 33

Q1: Do you think there is a contradiction between what employers want in


employees (agreeable employees) and what employees actually do best
(disagreeable employees)? Why or why not?

ANS: Yes there is a contradiction between what employers want in employees and what they
actually do best. There is clear evidence that agreeableness is something the employers value.
Employers want agreeable employees even if they are not better job performers compared to
disagreeable employees. This is because they are easy to be manipulated and they are less
aggressive in negotiating starting salaries. Another reason for hiring agreeable employees is that
they are helping in nature and inability to say NO and being a hurdle in the work procedures,
they let the work go on as it is going on.

Q2: Often, the effects of personality depend on the situation. Can you think of
some a job situation in which agreeableness is an important virtue? And in
which it is harmful?

ANS: Agreeableness is very important at a workplace where people work in teams to achieve a
common goal. In order to make the team prosper it is essential for individuals to agree with each
other. A good communication among members and team work could yield a productive outcome.
There are some jobs that require agreeable qualities. These jobs include

● Social workers
● Mental Health Counselors
● Lodging Managers
● Human Resources Specialists
● Elementary School Teachers.
● Nurses and Doctors
● Primary school teachers
● Customer service assistants
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These jobs require friendly approaches and nice personalities, because it deals with providing
services to the public.

Being too agreeable is not good every time. It is when the nature of the job is too harmful and
competitive. These are the jobs that need solid and firm decisions.

● Sales person rarely sold luxury items


● Head of public organization
● Labor unit negotiating with the government leader
● Head of military unit

These are the kinds of jobs on which you are not allowed to show your weaknesses, because
showing your weaknesses means failure.

Q3: In some research we’ve conducted, we’ve found that the negative effects
of agreeableness on earnings are stronger for men than for women (that is,
being agreeable hurts men’s earnings more than women’s). Why do you think
this might be the case?

ANS: Men are considered to be the bread earner of the family. Men are known to be strong,
naturally born leaders and head of the society. But women are thought to be more social,
communicative, kind and agreeable than men. Men show more aggressiveness than women in
the financial aspect as it is their personality trait of less agreeableness. Men are more egoistic and
they take earning less money, as a failure of their capability. Men are more demanding than
women in case of earnings. They tried every possible way to increase their earnings by
negotiation or by showing aggression (strikes, etc.). Since the psychology of men is more
inclined to better earnings than women, the negative effect of agreeableness is stronger for men
than women.

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