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The disillusionment that occurs when high job expectations confront the reality of a boring, unchallenging job. This may rightly be attributed to which one of the following?

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UGC NET 2016 Paper 2 Management Question Paper (22-Jan-2017)
The correct answer is

Reality Shock

Concept: Reality shock is an early-career phenomenon in which the inflated expectations a new recruit brings to a job collide with the ordinary, unexciting reality of the actual work, producing disillusionment.

The description is of a new employee's high expectations meeting a dull, unchallenging job, causing disillusionment, and the answer is the term for that gap. Reality shock is precisely this, and it is common in the first months of a career.

Example: A fresh graduate who imagined leading exciting projects but is instead assigned routine data entry feels reality shock.

Option check: 'Mentoring shock' (option 2), 'mental upcharge' (option 3) and 'career upset' (option 4) are not standard organisational-behaviour terms for this experience and are, in fact, invented labels. Only reality shock names the collision of expectation and reality.

Hence it may rightly be attributed to reality shock.

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