Expectancy Violation Theory - Intimate in an Elevator - Not!

Elevator Group Think: In this experiment it shows how if everyone is standing one way in the elevator that is not the norm, the other person is going to be compelled to stand that way too because everyone else is doing it. This is relevant to making it difficult to enforce standards of ethics because if a lot of people are doing something unethically, other people are compelled to do the same thing, so they are not left out.

People expect others to remain a certain distance away depending on the relationship they have with someone. The closer a person is to another relationship wise (friends, relatives, partners) the more acceptable it is to be physically closer to them. The opposite can be said when strangers invade one’s personal boundaries at times it can be more than just uncomfortable having someone stand too close can also be seen as threatening. In an individualistic society, such as the one in the United States, being independent is highly encouraged. Rather than “all for one and one for all” people are told to work hard for themselves not for society as a whole. By sitting next to strangers not only did I infiltrate their boundaries but I also distracted them from their work by putting them in an uncomfortable situation. Since most subjects continued to do their work and mind their own business they held their needs as more important than interacting with me. When those two girls had an actual conversation with me and saw me as a friendly stranger rather than threatening they did not necessarily consider my needs but they did acknowledge my presence enough to set aside their work even if just for a moment. Being the social creatures that we are talking to others can put people at ease seeing that the people I sat next to took out their phones I saw that even though they did

I also gave her personal space as we had never met before; this was so she felt comfortable.

As stated earlier, this experiment completely proved my hypothesis wrong. Many of the people that rode the elevator with me stared at me as though there were something wrong with me. Most were uncomfortable and fidgety and kept looking over their shoulder at me as they rode forward, and me, backwards. More than a few asked if I was alright and even asked my friend, who was acting as if he did not know me, knew what was was wrong. I even conducted a few controlled experiments where I rode the elevator forward to see if people would react to me then, but not a single person outside of the experiment even acknowledged my existence. I would have thought that in a place like L.A. County, people would be too busy to notice others, or people would have been raised to mind their own business and keep to themselves, but apparently abiding my social standards and making sure that others do as well is a higher priority.

Personal space. Space between people indicates interest or intimacy between people. Personal space can be split in to four areas:

failed to provide the necessary supervision and ensure the safety of residents in the dining rooms

Her statement had spread throughout the school; all her co-workers had adverse reactions thinking that her ability of being a teacher would interfere due to her racial comment. Her principal decided that it would be better to have her dismissed.

7/26/16 – a pre-determination meeting was held with Shane, in the presence of his Union Representative, Tom Brice, to discuss the allegation that he violated the Dept. of Transportation and Public Facilities Employee Conduct Policy and Procedure #02.01.020 when he demonstrated disrespectful behavior towards his supervisor upon receiving a recent letter of suspension dated July 11, 2016.

A second type of legislation within health and social care is “Manual handling operations Regs 1992.” This act states that employers all must plan ahead and avoid task that carry risks. They must also take steps to reduce the risks of injury during tasks that cannot be avoided for example, within River glade using a hoist alone the staff must assess the risk of this job and potentially ask for help if they cannot do it alone. In order to reduce the risk of injury from manual handling the staff can plan every lift to be as safe as possible by bending their knees while lifting the can also, encourage people to move independently when possible. Lastly, they can avoid repetitive lifts. (Aldworth C., 2010)

Alexis, meet with Espin in her UNLV office, Espin was extremely rude, and mean spirited with Alexi’s causing her to cry. Kathy did not want to hear anything since she had already sent a formal complaint to the UNLV office of student conduct. It appears that numerous potential violations occurred during this so-called impartial investigation. Professor Hausch provided a letter outlying

Complainant alleges that the community room was not open at 8a.m. Respondents assert that because of their maintenance workers and management staff starting schedules this could not have happened. By Complainant’s own admission, after he spoke to Kennedy at 9:40 a.m., the room was unlocked and opened for all of the tenants at approximately 10 a.m. The investigation did not reveal and no evidence has been presented which shows that this occurrence altered the terms and conditions of Complainant’s housing. The evidence does not suggest that Respondents’ actions, which impacted all of the building’s tenants, were severe or pervasive enough to rise to the level of harassment or singled Complainant out based on his age, disability, race and source of income. Regarding the missing remote, Complainant suggests that Respondents removed the remote because he wanted to watch the television is pure

When performing this experiment I felt a little bit embarrassed at first, but after I noticed that a few people laughed, I laughed too. Since we did this on campus, the number of floors that we had to stop at was not a large number and was not a huge inconvenience, but I did feel a little bit bad for prolonging everyone’s ride when some did seem to be in a rush. The one thing that I realized when doing this project was that while most people noticed, no one really cared and they all went back to focusing on themselves rather than why we would have pressed all of the buttons. I remember us talking about similar insistences in class to this, but this situation showed me that while it might have embarrassed us a little bit, no one else thought a lot about what we had done. Doing this project help me to realize that breaking social norms is not always a bad thing and showed me that people are not going to react as badly as you think when breaking these

She was a toe headed girl who was very kind, there wasn’t much between me and Nancy she was a cheerleader always too busy for me.

Many people formed this personal space by placing luggage around them, extending a body part, or using a companion to consume space. Most people stood at least a half an arm’s distance away from each other, but if this distance felt threatened people were sure to express nonverbal and sometime verbal behaviors.

The incident in question has placed me in a unique opportunity; as the facilitator of this situation would be best to approach this in a manner that would best benefit the organization, including my department. Although I am already conflicting within with personal and professional points of views, addressing the situation will become a challenge. Despite who initiated this situation or who escalated the situation, resolution must be determined in the best interest of communication within our environment.