It's All a Matter of Personality Case Study 2022

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CASE STUDY: IT’S
ALL A MATTER OF
PERSONALITY

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Employees at Apple and some other high-tech firms work so hard and put in so long hours
because of the consistent demands of the company. They have to achieve the targets, set by the
companies so they have consistent pressure to deliver the quality work to keep their clients
happy (Heracleous and Papachroni New york city). In a Forbes article, the answer of one of the
content writers at Apple was reported where he said that working at Apple never feels like work,
he loved every minute of it (Graham 2016). It was further reported by one of the Apple workers
saying that if you find a job which you are passionate about, you will never work a day in the
lifetime (Graham 2016). The comment of the workers reflect that they are so passionate about
their work that they love putting long hours at work and excessively enjoy what they do but this
is a not a reality of every employee for some they are made to work because their company
wants them, in a case study it was reported that some tele-communication companies gifts their
employee with PCs, Cellular Phones, Pagers and other devices so that the company stays in
contact with the employee and direct them to meet the targets anytime. The companies where
employees are putting in long hours provide them with all the facilities where they do not feel
like missing home, they have their leisure time specified where they can take a peaceful nap at
nap pods and have exquisitely designed menu for eat-buffet, which satisfy them fully (Lawrence.
2019). In the case of giant Apple, they organize various events where great personalities have
shown up such as Stevie Wonder, Demi Lovato, the company also pays 300$ annual bill for
gyms to its employees (Campbell-Kelly and Martin 2018).These are the reasons related to
company wanting their employees to work. There are personal reasons where employee himself
puts in long hours to meet the goals of financial security. As in today’s culture of rising financial
inequalities, the employees want to overwork themselves to meet out their ever-increasing
expenses. In journal article, it was stated that the Marketing revolution by many brands in the
market had tempted the people that an ideal life is ability to afford the most expensive advertised
brands (Pratiwi, l Jihan and Niswaty 2019). The creative advertisements of the brands had made
them equate the real success with the possession of these expensive brands so employees are
drawn by these desires to overwork themselves to increase their spending capability. Another
reason is that in most countries there are no clear laws governing the employees working hours,
the employees who are kept on wages are paid on the hourly basis while for the salaried
employees, they have a fix salary so the employer can make them work any number of hours

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they want them to work. These many reasons contribute to the employees working long hours in
the office (Pratiwi, l Jihan and Niswaty 2019).
Wayne Huizenga had a very good self –esteem. He thought himself a winner in the field of
business. His immense appreciation of himself made him one of the revered American
Entrepreneurs and business man who came up with three great Fortune 500 Companies and six
companies which got listed on the New York Stock Exchange (Lee, et al. 2016). The man who
started back-to-back innovative business, continued despite facing flak for his ideas which
suggest that he had immense belief in himself and his dreams. At the age of 25, he came up with
the sanitation business which worked well and came to be regarded as the one of the best
companies which was listed in fortune 500 companies, by 1984 the company was topping with
the revenue of 1$billion (Todd 2013). At the age of 46, the Wayne Huizenga retired from his
business, even after retirement he felt restless and started buying various small business which
reflects his highest self-worth even at the middle age, where most people want to spend rest of
their lives peacefully with their families, he still believed in himself and his ideas and the fear of
being overtaken by the young generations’ did not bother him. The bold attitude of Wayne
Huizenga to present his ideas without worrying what the people might think pointed out to his
healthy self-esteem.. After his one creative venture, he acquired around 100 businesses, which
included from a bottled water services to hotels to construction ventures, his confidence in trying
new ventures is a reflective of his inquisitive attitude in knowing various things, and the
inquisitive attitude made him the man of knowledge, which was the burning factor behind his
high self-esteem. His attitude in trying various great ventures conveyed to the public that he
valued himself on very high terms. After touching so many sectors he planned to touch the
entertainment sector, where he bought the good number of shares of the company named
“Blockbuster” thus owing a good amount of interest in the company. He never wanted to try his
hand in entertainment sector as he felt the industry to be dingy and full of filth. He took risk and
bought the good number of controlling shares of the company. The risk taking ability of Wayne
Huizenga reflects his positive and strong belief system about his capabilities, which suggest his
high self-esteem. Then after that he bought a company which was performing poorly into waste
management and security business, the Huizenga then overhauled both the business and renamed