This Saturday, I watched the latest episode of “2 broke girl” and was deeply moved by the optimism of the heroines. The TV series tells a story about 2 waitresses, Max and Caroline. Max was born in a poor single-parent family while Caroline who used to be heiress of considerable fortune now lost everything. They worked together at a Brooklyn diner and never forgave building toward their dream of one day opening a cupcake shop. I am going to analyze whether their cupcake business will succeed according to organizational behavior we learnt these week.
As it is referred in textbook, heredity as well as environment play powerful roles in determining one`s personality,1 the alcoholic mother and volatile growth environment made Max an exquisite character. Also, she tends to reconcile with situation more than Caroline.
During their first meeting, Halo Effect made Max draw a general impression of Caroline on the basis of her clumsiness in doing waitressing. 1However, after a few rounds of interaction Max gained objective appraisal of Caroline that she was a bubbly but stanch person. In organizational terminology, Caroline has a proactive personality, that she always shows initiative, takes action for their cupcake business. She is always willing to challenge the status quo and encourages Max to change their situation.1
Besides, Max has high core self-evaluation that she believes her talent in making cupcake and finds it very fulfilling to carry out their cupcake business. 2Compared to their career as waitress, they generated more productivity in cupcake, because they intrinsically felt good about it.2 Most importantly, since it is their own business, they developed such stronger organizational citizenship behavior that they did more than just making and selling cupcake. Max went to dissert school to learn more technical skill, while Caroline worked hard to push forward their ideaS to strive for sponsorship.
Will these 2 broke sister finally realize their dream? Let`s wait and see!
Reference
- Langton, Robbins, Judge, Organizational Behaviour, 7th edition, chapter 2
- Langton, Robbins, Judge, Organizational Behaviour, 7th edition, chapter 3