Question

Steve, the marketing lead in an organization, treats each of his team members differently and maintains unique relationships with them. Jerry and Henry are members of his team. He assigns more interesting tasks to Jerry and offers him more rewards. On the other hand, Henry is simply required to comply with formal rules and receives the standard benefits of the job. From this scenario, it can be inferred that

Answer 1

Answer: Jerry belongs to Steve's in-group

Explanation: An In-group is a group of two or more individuals who interact with one another, share the same characteristics and have a sense of unity altogether in which an individual perceives that collection of individuals as being a member.

In this case, Jerry belongs to Steve’s In-group as Steve assigns him more interesting tasks and offers him more rewards over Henry who is meant to just comply with formal rules whilst receiving standard benefits of the work. This is usually because individuals tend to prefer and have favoritism for their in-group over the out-group which Henry can be said to be in.