Bill is a Brazilian immigrant. Bill’s work before joining the group was terrific, a breakthrough in combining position data and financial modeling. He joined a new group to clean up a financial database. His work relied on cooperation from the IT department, and they claimed to be too busy to help. He made no substantive progress for months. Peter, the executive for the division, did not like Bill from the start. When he heard of the delays, he blamed Bill. This is an example of: