Megatech for class
MEGATECH INTERNATIONAL INC.1
Mr. Victor delos Reyes, President of Megatech International Inc., stood quietly looking out the window at his 20th floor office in Makati. He was wondering what actually went wrong with his
Cytel design and construction management contract which was threatening to get out of control.
A few minutes ago, he adjourned an emergency meeting with his design engineering team and his cooperating group of outside engineering consultants. They politely requested that if possible, they all wanted out of the Cytel project citing imperious and over bearing attitude of the client’s expatriate technical staff. They stressed that they were also professionals entitled to some degree of respect and that there was no place for abusive language in formal meetings of collegial peers.
The day before in a meeting at the construction site, the Cytel project manager and his technical staff walked out of the coordination meeting intended to resolve critical issues on some design problems encountered during the project construction stage. The Cytel project manager was heard saying; "There is no use meeting with you people. We are tired of beating a dead horse".
Then he left and carried away with him the entire CyteI's technical staff without saying a word further. The Company
Megatech International Inc. (MII) is a firm of consulting and project management engineers affiliated with an Australian-based group of companies. Megatech provided engineering design and construction management services to local industrial and government clients. The company was organized in 1990 starting with tive (5) engineers and since then had gradually expanded its operation eventually employing BG people in 1997. Please see its organizational chart in
Annex A and its financial reports for year 1997 in Annex B.
As an engineering services company, Megatech did not engage ln actual construction itself, but rather acted for and in behalf of the owner doing the engineering design for its
Mr. Victor delos Reyes, President of Megatech International Inc., stood quietly looking out the window at his 20th floor office in Makati. He was wondering what actually went wrong with his
Cytel design and construction management contract which was threatening to get out of control.
A few minutes ago, he adjourned an emergency meeting with his design engineering team and his cooperating group of outside engineering consultants. They politely requested that if possible, they all wanted out of the Cytel project citing imperious and over bearing attitude of the client’s expatriate technical staff. They stressed that they were also professionals entitled to some degree of respect and that there was no place for abusive language in formal meetings of collegial peers.
The day before in a meeting at the construction site, the Cytel project manager and his technical staff walked out of the coordination meeting intended to resolve critical issues on some design problems encountered during the project construction stage. The Cytel project manager was heard saying; "There is no use meeting with you people. We are tired of beating a dead horse".
Then he left and carried away with him the entire CyteI's technical staff without saying a word further. The Company
Megatech International Inc. (MII) is a firm of consulting and project management engineers affiliated with an Australian-based group of companies. Megatech provided engineering design and construction management services to local industrial and government clients. The company was organized in 1990 starting with tive (5) engineers and since then had gradually expanded its operation eventually employing BG people in 1997. Please see its organizational chart in
Annex A and its financial reports for year 1997 in Annex B.
As an engineering services company, Megatech did not engage ln actual construction itself, but rather acted for and in behalf of the owner doing the engineering design for its