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Benton was frustrated and dissatisfied about her job in Houseworld, where she started by a lack of responsibility, and poor relationships with her boss, Linton, and a colleague, Scoville. With the reveal of her less-than-promising performance review, Benton was concern of her career in Houseworld, and was thinking of calling her former supervisor, Kingston, of Right-Aways Stores, whom she had previously turned down an appealing offer.
There are three major relationships, with Linton, Scoville, and Vernon, that shaped up Benton’s current circumstances. If Benton had deal with them with different ways, it might lead to a different result.
Relationship with Linton
Because of policy of the Home Care Division, the recruiting practice has emphasized recruiting MBAs from top-notch schools for entry-level marketing positions. This decision makes it difficult for Linton, also Scoville, to be promoted and fosters their negative attitudes toward MBAs. Unfortunately, this had led to Benton’s difficulties in making good impression on Linton. Unlike the previous friendly and enthusiastic welcome in her interview, Benton received an opposite responses which did not fulfill her emotional needs and reduced her motivation in her department.
Because of her dislike to Benton, Linton seemed to ignore Benton's ability on purpose and did not assign challenging tasks to Benton. Linton eventually failed Benton by assuming that Benton’s task maturity was low and blocked her development of her expert power. However, Benton did a great job when she was in her full-time internship at Right-Away, she had qualified job skills to develop her expertise. But she failed to do this due to her intimidating conversations with Linton a ...