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Dwight's Behavior

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Behaviors
Dwight makes alliances with people instead of friendships, but breaks the alliances when it’s not going in his favor.
Dwight refers to himself as the assistant regional manager when really he is the assistant to the regional manager.
Dwight battles Jim Halpert numerous times and tries to destroy his career when Jim teases him.
Dwight follows all orders and rules, and he responds to strict leaders or bosses.
Dwight has tons of weapons stored within the office, always loaded and ready for use.
Dwight doesn’t trust his co workers and will use weapons against them.
Dwight killed his girlfriend's cat and to make up for it bought her a new one.
Dwight pepper sprayed someone who was going to hurt an office worker.
Dwight accidentally shot …show more content…

Because he sees his job this way, he creates “alliances” with people because he thinks it will help himself out. When the alliances are not in his favor, he stops being in the alliance and leaves the other person hanging. This shows that Dwight believes that by forming alliances that benefit him, he will further his development in the company and eventually become superior to everybody.
Sociocultural
Dwight can be very violent around Jim. This is because Jim makes it a habit to provoke Dwight at all costs, and Dwight has had enough of it. Dwight has had violent episodes such as whipping Jim with a stick, but has not been very violent to others. Because Dwight believes that injuring Jim will cause him to stop, Dwight’s personality around Jim changes and becomes more violent.
Humanistic
Dwight always hides weapons around the office because he wants to do his best to protect others. His ideal self is to protect others and create a safe environment for others to work in. One example of when he lived up to his ideal self is when he pepper sprayed a man who was about to fight a worker. An example of when Dwight didn’t live up to his ideal self was when he shot a gun in the office. Everybody told him the gun was dangerous, but he didn’t listen and continued to carry it around. Although Dwight wasn’t acting like his ideal self in this scenario, afterwards he did everything he could to live up to his ideal self

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