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Before meeting Sue: Mary Jones was in her senior year at Central University. She was in the top 1 percent of her class. Before Mary met Sue, she detained the company in high admiration and was proud of working for Universal Manufacturers. The company's organizational culture was favorable for her, and all her colleagues were helpful. In addition to this, she worked hard without any hesitations. Her input to the company was being appreciated and she was given challenging assignments which presented practical experience to her. Once, in companys Costa Rican manufacturing facilities was having production problem where Mary has done superb job to solve the problem. Her manager, Tom had positive thoughts of her and she passed her annual review. Her salary was increased by 10% from $40,000, whereas most employees had an increase of 5%. However, after Mary met Sue, her attitude towards the company changed. After meeting Sue: Sue had joined the company a year later than Mary and yet her starting salary was $45,000, which was $5,000 more than the salary they had started Mary with. It is also $1000 more than Mary would receive after her 10% increase, which is $44,000. This revealed a level of discrimination and inequitable treatment of employees since employees have to to be remunerated according to their effort to the company. Mary had similar qualifications with Sue when she joined the organization and had put in hard work, which was recognized by everyone in the company. However, the fact that little over than one year after putting in these efforts, she would still have lower pay than Sue, who had recently joined the organization made her have a negative attitude towards the company. Changes in Marys attitude towards The Company: Mary's attitude towards the company changed and became negative due to this perception of discrimination and unfairness. The changes in attitude will possible influence her ability to perform, and this may have a negative impact on the company.
in the company. At present she would put less effort in the company due to a decrease in motivation. She would not resign immediately since she does not have an alternative job which would pay her bills. However, Later, she would resign after she successfully obtains employment in a company which values her input and remunerates all employees according to their input.