What is the analysis using Organizational Behaviour theories? Brandon Newbridge was sitting alone in the conference room of the laboratory. The rest of the group had gone. One of the support staff members had stopped and talked for a while about her husband$$s coming enrolment in graduate school. Brandon, now alone in the laboratory, slid a little further down in his chair, looking with satisfaction at the results of the first test run of the new photon unit.

He liked to stay after the others had gone. His appointment as project head was still new enough to give him a deep sense of pleasure. His eyes were on the graphs before him, but in his mind, he could hear Dr$.$ William Goh, the project head, saying again, $$There$$s one thing about this place you can bank on$.$ The sky is the limit for anyone who can produce!$$ Newbridge felt again the tingle of happiness and embarrassment. Well, dammit, he said to himself, he had produced. He wasn$$t kidding anybody. He had come to the Simmons Laboratories two years ago. During a routine testing of some rejected Clanson components, he had stumbled on the idea of the photon correlator, and the rest just happened. Goh had been enthusiastic: A separate project had been set up for further research and development of the device, and he had been given the job of running it$.$ The whole sequence of events still seemed a little miraculous to Newbridge.

He shrugged out of the reverie and was bent determinedly over the sheets when he heard someone come into the room behind him. He looked up expectantly; Goh often stayed late himself and now and then dropped in for a chat. This always made the day$$s end especially pleasant for Brandon. But it wasn$$t Goh. The man who had come in was a stranger. He was tall and thin. He wore steel$-$rimmed glasses and had a very wide leather belt with a large brass buckle. Lucy, a member of Brandon$$s team, remarked later that it was the kind of belt the Pilgrims must have worn.

The stranger smiled and introduced himself. $$I$$m Lester Zapf. Are you Brandon Newbridge?$$ Brandon said yes, and they shook hands. $$Doctor Goh said I might find you in$.$ We were talking about your work, and I$$m very much interested in what you are doing.$$ Brandon waved to a chair.

Zapf didn$$t seem to belong in any of the standard categories of visitors: customer, visiting firefighter, shareholder. Brandon pointed to the sheets on the table. $$These are the preliminary results of a test we$$re running. We have a new gadget by the tail and we$$re trying to understand it$.$ It$$s not finished, but I can show you the section we$$re testing.$$

He stood up$,$ but Zapf was deep in the graphs. After a moment, he looked up with an odd grin. $$These look like plots of a Jennings surface. I$$ve been playing around with some autocorrelation functions of surfaces$$you know that stuff.$$ Brandon, who had no idea what he was referring to$,$ grinned back and nodded, and immediately felt uncomfortable. $$Let me show you the monster,$$ he said, and led he way to the workroom.

After Zapf left, Newbridge slowly put the graphs away, feeling vaguely annoyed. Then, as if he had made a decision, he quickly locked up and took the long way out so that he would pass Goh$$s office. But the office was locked. Newbridge wondered whether Goh and Zapf had left together.

The next morning, Newbridge dropped into Goh$$s office, mentioned that he had talked with Zapf, and asked who he was.

$$Sit down for a minute,$$ Goh said. $$I want to talk to you about him. What do you think of him?$$ Newbridge replied truthfully that he thought Zapf was very bright and probably very competent. Goh looked pleased.

$$We$$re taking him on$,$ he said. $$He$$s had a very good background in a number of laboratories, and he seems to have ideas about the problems we$$re tackling here.$$ Newbridge nodded in agreement, instantly wishing that Zapf would not be placed with him.Page CA$-8$

$$I don$$t know yet where he will finally land,$$ Goh continued, $$but he seems interested in what you are doing. I thought he might spend a little time with you by way of getting started.$$ Newbridge nodded thoughtfully. $$If his interest in your work continues, you can add him to your group.$$

$$Well$,$ he seemed to have some good ideas even without knowing exactly what we are doing,$$ Newbridge answered. $$I hope he stays; we$$d be glad to have him.$$

Newbridge walked back to the lab with mixed feelings. He told himself that Zapf would be good for the group. He was no dunce; he$$d produce. Newbridge thought again of Goh$$s promise when he had promoted him: $$The sky is the limit here for anyone who can produce!$$ The words seemed to carry the overtones of a threat now.

That day Zapf didn$$t appear until mid$-$afternoon. He explained that he had had a long lunch with Goh, discussing his place in the lab. $$Yes$,$ said Newbridge, $$I talked with Dr$.$ Goh this morning about it$,$ and we both thought you might work with us for a while.$$

Zapf smiled in the same knowing way that he had smiled when he mentioned the Jennings