1) Joanna’s diagnosis of the situation is that the department was fairly inefficient. The workload was not spread equally and fairly. Magdalena and the new workers had tons of paperwork, while the clique had time to socialize and not to do work. Moreover, Sam and Jose never reviewed the work done by the department; they were only focused on case histories. The employees knew very little about the department and couldn’t really explain the purpose of their job. Therefore, the morale was also low and this resulted in inefficiency.…
In the last three months it has come to my attention that several changes have been occurring, since Jessica Hilo has been on medical leave. The last three months we have more increased cost due to overtime, poor quality of work, tardiness and variations of break time. Every two executives have one secretary to help support the current team. Jack Snyder supports Jessica Hilo and Ralph Alane, while Ruth Disselkoen supports Samuel and Frank Daley. There is only one difference between these executives and that is Jack’s team has a full-time assistant, while Ruth’s team only has a part-time assistant. With Jessica’s work load being shifted temporarily to Ralph and Frank Daley, it has created a work load imbalance. Ruth has been cutting her breaks short, and using overtime to complete her work load. The problem is the quality of work being turned in has declined. Jack, I noticed you have been taking longer than the allotted break times, coming in late on several occasions, and finishing early. These actions are not in the best interest of the team.…
c) The problems seem to mostly stem from the inexperience of the owner in the industry and her poor relations to the employees and assistant manager. By running on a short fuse Ms. Kindred has succeeded in alienating some if not all of her employees, and the firing of three long term employees and instant shift in business practices will and are having detrimental effects on both customer service and profits. The problems seem to mostly stem from Ms. Kindred taking and unfriendly and impersonal attitude to what is a very close-knit staff who are used to contributing to the company in more ways then just manually.…
c) Mrs. Johnson is currently experiencing moderate, at the most job dissatisfaction and when placed in stressful situations Mrs. Johnson’s interpersonal relations tend to decrease dramatically. She is more likely to become an uncooperative, demanding, mean-spirited, and withdrawn individual. From her own admission she becomes aggressively rude and withdrawn from employees and colleagues during stressful incidents. Her supervisory role in Rawanda requires that she be able to handle difficult situations along with staff-members in an effective and efficient manner without creating a hostile working…
In the last style mentioned in the scenario, Manager 3 demonstrates a democratic type of leadership. Subordinates are involved in the process of decision-making, unlike autocratic. This type of leadership is focused on the employees’ contributions in suggestions and opinions. Manager 3 as a democratic leader holds the final responsibility, but he/she is known to delegate authority to other people, who determine work projects.…
6. Another issue i found is that Ethel decided to give everyone a raise and a promotion when we know that it is unfair for others when Nick is getting one also. This would cause a financial impact because Ethel does not know what is really going on and who is not doing their job well. Therefore, money would be lost for not properly evaluating each employee's performance; both objective and…
What does it mean to donate your tissues and organs? Well, donating allows for the removal of the tissues and organs in your body for the use of transplanting or transfusing them into another person for individual use. Reading many parts of the American Transplant Foundation website enables an individual to understand what it truly means to be an organ and tissue donor. It also provides them with the proper information needed to be aware of the risks that are accompanied with donating. The American Transplant Foundation offers anyone and everyone the opportunity to obtain the proper information needed when deciding whether or not to donate.…
Donna is using the Achievement-oriented Leadership style; she assigned specific and challenging tasks to each staff and clarified their new work duties, expecting them to reach their peak performance. According to the case study, Donna announced the situation to her staff; she explained how she had dived the job and which additional work would be added to officer’s duties, seeking improvements on their performance. Her staff complained about the new duties added to their work, but due to Donna’s high degree of confidence that her employees would assume the responsibility and achieve the challenging goals, she asked them to take the given assignments and do their best.…
• Promote Elena to Manager and give her more duties that are for a manager.…
After talking with the department head, Joanna was able to detect a several problems that the department suffered. First there was a problem with the leadership of the department. One was that the department head Jose, was focusing more on community services rather than managing the workplace. Also, he was relying on Elena for supervision, who lacked leadership skills and had a personality of a follower rather than a leader. The main problem was that most of the workers don’t follow a certain job description and roles were mixed up. Some workers were doing more than they should and some had more free time during their working hours. The workplace lacked training of individuals that every workplace should have. Also, work is not supervised in an orderly manner. Finally, the top management did not give their employees the chance to engage in decision-making.…
B) What about those smart and talented colleague with unique skills? Why does she always end up underpaid and overworked? She admits that she would like to find another job, but she feels it would be disloyal to cut back on her 80-hour work week to make time to pursue that goal. So, she subordinates her own goals and ambitions to the "higher goal," while her boss is out developing his consulting business. Although she sounds angry, she seems unaware of…
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1. In my opinion, during her assignment in Southeast Asia Kathy lacked emotional intelligence. She is a great project manager, therefore she is motivated to do a good job and receive credit for a job well done. Unfortunately for her, being over motivated has caused her many troubles with the group of her subordinates. Kathy wanted to succeed so much that she overloaded her juniors with work. They worked on weekends and on working days they had literally no time to sleep. In response to that, her team members started to show resistance and project success faced a threat of failing. In this situation Kathy showed that she lacks Social Skills to be a real leader. She couldn’t communicate with her subordinates and that resulted into fights and misunderstanding. If Kathy talked to her subordinates about working to much, the project might have succeeded but unfortunately it didn’t.…
Response: Mr. Gomez tends to over analyze potential problems. The problems I foresee are Gomez takes extra care to see all invoices are checked twice, he monitors for neat desks, he takes twenty minutes of his morning to check punctuality, and he even tries to make his employees feel he cares by remembering birthdays and anniversaries. It seems to me as he has a micro-management problem but being over 5 people who have up to 10 people to oversee is going to be a little critical to Victor Gomez’s hands on approach. He is going to have to let them assist him and all the inability to delegate authority, responsibility, and accountability to other people such as his five section supervisors could help eliminate some of his problems.…
I think that Mr. Reynolds’ management method is very trusting and his style is somewhat laissez-faire, making it a somewhat fragile system. Reynolds doesn’t require paperwork which is usually used to detail and keep track of each employee’s actions but instead relies on trust and maturity amongst the salespeople. Generally such a method is a very risky but it seems that the intensive training that the employees receive builds their notion of responsibility. Furthermore, Reynolds’ management method tends to shy away from “burdening” his employees with potential estimates and quota targets like many other companies but believes each worker is ambitious for the company and themselves. His use of rewards and contests are very desirable for the employees but are very costly to implement – Reynolds must really trust his employees to make a return to cover such expenses. I do admire Reynolds discussion approach: discuss all work-related problems weekly or daily if necessary by telephone with their managers. The openness of the workplace probably uses the communication to replace the paperwork, a very admirable relationship in my opinion. I think Reynolds’ has crafted a very unique system which, although currently is effective under his management, seems very delicate to implement elsewhere and is very burdening on the company’s budget. I would not recommend it be to be adopted by other managers unless there is a strong financial foundation.…