Case study 1

4 employees Varsha (26 yrs/Engaged to Avinash/working/ Ambitious) Jegan(bachelor, 20 yrs old ) Avinash( 30 yrs old/ Engaged to Varsha, Dominating character) Aslam (45 yr old/married and settled in life/ superior in the organisation).

Avinash doesnt want Varsha to be working at his level. Jegan is a buddy to Varsha but still is jealous of her acheivements. Aslam feels women should not be working, kind of an ancient bugger.

The management makes a decision to move the supervisor out of the organisation and make one of the 4 as the new supervisor. Varsha is chosen as the new supervisor. The rest of the guys are not happy with her promotion.

Scenario –

The business make a profit of 10 crores every year. And the last year it was 12 crores. Suddenly management says to her that she should make 10 crores in the next 2 quarters (6months).

Varsha doesnt have any choice since if she doesnt make it Avinash will be promoted in her place. Avinash is so upset with Varsha that he will ditch her if she fails then. Also he is not happy to work under her as he is engaged to her.

Aslam is a senoir guy and feels very bad to report to Varsha, Jegan is ok to report to Varsha but has evil intentions in his mind about Varsha.

QUESTIONS:

1. Suggest a suitable title .2.What would you suggest Varsha,should she reach out to you for help ?3. How can you solve the managerial effectivenss issues arising out of functional and level difference in jobs, in the above case .4. Suggest suitable solutions for the issues identifed therein to ensure improve effectiveness of this organisation towards profitability.

Case study 2

Sushma works in Infosoft Solutions Pvt Ltd. She works there as Project Leader. Occasionally her job demands coming early for her duties or stay till late evening hours.

Once she was handling 2 projects simultaneously and on one such day she had convened a meeting with her team members regarding project delivery. She had called her team members at 0800 hours.

Sushma is a disciplinarian and generally she follows duty timings strictly.Discipline starts with me, was her firm principle. She had made a habit of coming 5 minutes early at least. However, on that day she could not make meeting time of 0800 hours and she was worried of her reputation could be at stake.

Time was 0805 and she reached main gate of her company. Hurriedly she swiped her card and rushed towards board room. That time few housemen were doing cleaning. One of the housemen had spread soap solution on the floor. Unaware of what is on the floor, she continued to rush to the board room. In hurry, Sushma slipped her foot. The floor was made of marbles and soap solution was sprinkled over it. The floor had become quite slippery. Sushma, could not control her balance on the slippery floor and fell down. Slippery floor dragged her couple of feet further.

The impact was so strong that she wailed loudly. Her team members rushed to help her. Somehow she could get up with the help of her team members. Considering her wailing because of pain, she was taken to the hospital. In the hospital it was discovered that her hip bone was broken. Later she was immobile for about two months because of hip injury.

Later in investigation, it was revealed that the houseman who was cleaning the floor had not put the display board “Caution: Floor is Wet”.

QUESTIONS :

1. SUGGEST A SUITABLE TITLE TO THE CASELET.2.WHAT ARE THE TIME DIMENSIONS INVOLVED IN THE CASE ABOVE ?3.ANALYSIS THE INDIVIDUAL EFFECTIVENESS PARADIGM IN THE CASE STUDY ABOVE.4. SUGGEST EFFECTIVENESS MEASURES WITH YOUR BROAD ASSUMPTIONS.