You may be familiar with stories (even from your own experience) of employees who choose to denigrate or subtly sabotage their fellow employees rather than focusing on how they themselves can be better or more productive. Often, a company may notice not that a single employee behaves this way, but that many, most, or all of them do. It seems obvious that spending time and energy figuring out how to make other employees appear worse, instead of spending that time and energy to make yourself better, is harmful to the company, but the behavior continues to be seen among large groups of workers. How might game theory offer an explanation for this behavior?

•          Instructions       There are three written assignments in  the course, in which you will use the same organization to analyze the  culture and make recommendations.  Therefore, it is essential you start  to think now about your company selection.     Consider  selecting a company you work for, a company a family member or friend  works for, or a civic organization. To ensure your selection sets you up  for success in all three assignments, be sure to review the  and ensure that your selected company:  
• is one you are familiar and can draw on internal processes the public (outsider) is unaware,
• has true issues that need to be resolved, and
• allows for realistic and enforceable solutions for the organization to be successful.
• When  you are ready to begin this assignment, select begin at the bottom of  the page and use the provided textbox to address the following:  

1. Identify the company that you want to research for the three written assignments in the course.
2. Describe the organizational issue in your chosen company.
3. Explain why the issue hinders organizational efficiency.