Question

Tracy is passed over for a promotion and raise because he is often late to work and misses deadlines. He wants to make himself look good to his friends, so he tells them that the company is tightening up its budget and isn’t promoting anyone. What strategy is Tracy using to maintain a positive self-concept and to make himself look good to his friends?

Answer 1

Answer: impression management

Explanation:

This is a strategy where one wants to maintain how people sees them by saying particular things that will make them look impressive or do certain things that will make them look impressive either because they want to be liked or they want to maintain a certain status amongst their friends.

Tracy wants to maintain her status hence she has to lie to her friends to keep looking like a great person who is achieving great things in life even when she is not.

She has to maintain that impression they have of her that she has probably built over time amongst her friends .