Question: Alisha after doing her electronics engineering from IIT - Kanpur, qualified for the IAS final round of interviews. At the same time, he also qualified

Alisha after doing her electronics engineering from IIT-Kanpur, qualified for the IAS final round of interviews. At the same time, he also qualified for admission to the MBA program at IIM Ahmedabad. Alisha told his father I have decided to take admission to the MBA program in IIM-Ahmadabad. IAS was never my first choice. I want to be a global corporate leader. Her father reacted sharply and told Shyam, No, you must go in for IAS. IAS is much better for building a more prestigious career than a career in corporate. His father was driven by the perception that IAS-qualified people maintain a higher profile in the social image than any other profession, and it would give much better social recognition to the family as well as a high social identity for himself. He was not very excited about his daughter becoming an MBA, Alisha argued with his father, Why do you want to force me to choose a professional career that I do not want to go for? I appeared in the IAS examination only because of your insistence and to prove my ability to you. Please allow me to choose the profession I love to pursue. I always wanted to learn the art and science of management from one of the best B-Schools, have a global leadership position, and be an entrepreneur ultimately.As a part of her personality, Alisha is extremely curious, highly creative, and very flexible and sensitive, however, she was also self-disciplined and dependable. Whereas Alishas father remains most of the time tense with official work, suffers from high anxiety, and easily gets irritated under conflicting situations, otherwise, he is reasonably courteous, well-mannered, and a very caring person. These differing personalities between Alisha and her father made the situation highly tense. Alisha tried her best to give compelling reasons with evidence of why she wants to have a global corporate leadership career citing the examples of Indian global leaders like Indra Nooyi, and the ex-CEO of PepsiCo worldwide, Sunder Pichai, the CEO of the global technology giant, Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, one of the most admired companies in the world, who according to her are much more respected in society internationally than any IAS officer in India. But her father remained unmoved, firmly held his views, and was not ready to accept his daughter's logic. He shouted at her Dont try to give me so many reasons. You must follow what I say. Alisha got very upset with her fathers comment, However, she tried to hide her negative emotions and tried to display pleasant emotions as far as possible, knowing very well that her father is a highly anxiety-prone person and that might lead to undesired consequences for her father.Finding that her father was under stress, and the situation not very conducive for a fruitful discussion, Alisha stopped putting on any further convincing arguments. She knew well about her fathers softer side of the personality of being very caring and empathetic. She could guess that her fathers personal goal and self-interest in this decision was to gain higher social standing within his social circle by her joining the IAS service than he has now. She wants to buy more time as she is confident of convincing her father about her joining the MBA program at IIM-Ahmedabad which would bring much higher social standing to her than her joining IAS service in due course. She thought of also providing evidence to her father at an appropriate time that to get admission to IIM-Ahmedabad or Calcutta is equally tough as qualifying for IAS if not more, which the learned society they belong to is aware of. She wants to work on the softer side of her personality and look out for an appropriate time to talk to her father. She knows that they can reach a win-win situation, but she needs to have patience. Questions: (justify your answer with one or two sentences)1.What is the Problem of problem or opportunity identification according to the OB perspective of Rational decision-making theory? (Marks 4)2.According to the theory of Big-5 personality, what dominant personality trait does (a) Alisha and (b) her father have? (Marks 2+2=4)3.According to the theory of Transactional analysis, what is the ego state in each of the following two conversations?Conversation A: Alisha argued with his father, Why do you want to force me to choose a professional career that I do not want to go for?Conversation B:He shouted at her Dont try to give me so many reasons. You must follow what I say. (Marks 2=2=4)4.What type of perceptual bias did Alias father have in perceiving an IAS career as a more prestigious career than a global corporate career? (Marks 5)5.What type of need drive for motivation does Alisha have to pursue the MBA program from IIM Ahmedabad? (Justify your answer by using any theory of motivation to reply to your answer)(Marks 5)6.What type of emotional state did Alisha go through during the conversations with her father? (Marks 5)7.(a) What was the source of the conflict between Alisha and her father? According to the model of conflict resolution, (b) what type of conflict resolution mode did Alishas father adopt, (c) what type of conflict resolution mode is Alisha trying to adopt? (Marks 2+3+3=8)

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