Agya Kofi has been a clerk in a business firm for over a decade. He feels that he has been doing his job efficiently. However, the promotion to a supervisory position, which he has been expecting, has never materialized. He feels sad about it, and a little angry with his manager, Roselyn, who is responsible for promotions   Agya Kofi feels that a deserving promotion has been denied to him and he attributes it to the fact that Roselyn belongs to a community different from his. This feeling has gone to such an extent that Agya Kofi has become somewhat negligent in his work. He keeps a book of poems which he quietly reads in the office in moments of dullness. He has even begun to write poems, a practice of his university days, and now he does so even in his office occasionally and delights in it. He even thinks of giving up his clerical job and imagines himself sitting in a chair of the sub-editor of a magazine which has published two of his poems using his nickname. Required: Analyze the feelings and behaviour of Agya Kofi in light of your knowledge of personality, perception and attitudes

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Agya Kofi has been a clerk in a business firm for over a decade. He feels that he has been doing his job efficiently. However, the promotion to a supervisory position, which he has been expecting, has never materialized. He feels sad about it, and a little angry with his manager, Roselyn, who is responsible for promotions

 

Agya Kofi feels that a deserving promotion has been denied to him and he attributes it to the fact that Roselyn belongs to a community different from his. This feeling has gone to such an extent that Agya Kofi has become somewhat negligent in his work. He keeps a book of poems which he quietly reads in the office in moments of dullness. He has even begun to write poems, a practice of his university days, and now he does so even in his office occasionally and delights in it. He even thinks of giving up his clerical job and imagines himself sitting in a chair of the sub-editor of a magazine which has published two of his poems using his nickname.

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