week and thought that she would do okay on it but when she got it back… she had failed. She blamed it on the professor but I blamed it on the time she spends with her boyfriend. I classify my attribution as internal, unstable.(6) Managers often attribute employees’ poor performance to internal causes. The affected employee often attributes the outcome to external causes.(7)The potential “cost” of this “misperception” between managers and employees are that employees getting in trouble for something that they may have had no control over. A severe “cost” would be employees losing their jobs. ...
