Situation Analysis: Impression Management

After reading the scenario, answer the questions that follow.

During the first day of math class, Trevor's professor announced that he wanted all students to arrive on time to class. In the following weeks, a few students arrived late, and the professor always made a point of telling the students to get to class on time in a joking and fun way. During the fourth week of class, three students walked into the classroom ten minutes after class began. The professor stopped class and started yelling at the students for interrupting class.

Although Trevor's professor had made it clear he expected students to arrive on time, he responded to late arrivals in the first few we joking way. The professor was attempting to manage how the students interpreted his by being easygoing.

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