Caroline Happy Earn Associates Degree Dental Hygeine Emphasis Children S Prophylaxis Least Q28645458

Caroline was happy to earn her associates degree in dentalhygeine with an emphasis in children’s prophylaxis. At the veryleast she has a job that made her family happy and got them off herback about a career. Her mom and dad constantly pointed out thateven in hard times children would still need to have there teethcleaned and parents would work to ensure the health of theirchildren so her job would be recession proof. Additionally herfamily felt that a job in the medical profession gave her morestatus and others would see her as someone important, After workingwith the placement service of the university Caroline found a jobat a large family dental practice in the valley. She wanted toappear as professional as possible so she joined all thelocal,state, aand national dental hygeinist organizations she couldfind ecen though she had no real intentions of participationgasuming a leafership rolde in any of the organizations. After twoweeks of orientation caroline was assigned her own room and beganto recieve new clients. her work focused on children and she workedhard to build their confidence in her and overcome the frear ofgoing to the dentist. Caroline thought it waas strange tha she andthe other dentist doing a cursory once ober at the end of thecleaning session,yet dentist were paid much more of the per patientfees. One weekend working out at the local gym she had joined forexercise and networking opportunities. Caroline ran into julia oneof her former classmates after exchanging some idle chit chat juliaasked her how she liked her new job. Carolina explained that sherecieved little satisfaction from the job other than seeing thesmiles of children she worked on and she realized now that it was ajob like any other. One evening carolina was in line to place herorfer at a local carryout diner. In front of her was chrystal theaccounts manager for the dental practice. Chyrstal invited carolineto sit with her in the dining room. As they ate dinner, Chrystalremarked to caroline she had some feedback she would like to sharewith her. Caroline remarked that she had hoped it was not a problemwith the insurance billing she had completed for a family earlierin the week. Chrystal ensured her it had nothing to do with theinsurance. She went on to tell caroline that she had overheardseverak dentist in practice rederring to her as automatic andemotionless when dealing with children who were her patients. Theywere concerned that caroline had no passion for her job and couldmake a critical mistake due to her blase’ attitude. Caroline becamedefensive and angry telling chrystal she loved the children andwold never do anything to hurt them. she went on to tell her thatif she were paid a little more she might be more inclined to bemore passionate about the job. But as it was well…

1. What can caroline do to become more motivated about her workand overcome the reputation of being passionless about her job.

2 what motivational opportunities could caroline expect from herboesses at the dentis office?

3Explain how carolines behavior using the equity theory

4 How would Herzberg explain carolines lack of passion for herjob