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The group is suffering from the Social comparison. My reasoning came from reading a Journal of managerial issue called Psychological influences of referent choice. According to (Lamertz, 2002) he stated:”The nature of contemporary work environment, ones characterized by instability and uncertainty, may create increased needs on the part of individuals for comparative information.” Also individuals use social comparison for managing both uncertainty and environmental change, and for making critical decisions about one job ( Van den Bos, 2001). There are several types of referents (Goodman, 1974) classified the primary comparison target groups: comparison s involving oneself (self referents), comparisons involving other individuals (Other-referents), and
comparison involving employee and the organization (system-referent). Our group falls in this category system-referent. Much research has demonstrated that workers are influences by and behave differently as a result of......

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