Question 1: What are the problems in this case?
1. Elllen’s female identity made her an alienated participant in the work place in Korea, whose culture is dominantly masculine. The acceptance of her came in and took responsibility as the senior member of the project was early based on a compromise of her obtaining of required skills, however, her identity as a female was constantly reemphasized in the company’s social events.
2. Ellen and Jack were both initially appointed as the co-manager to the SI project, however, from the organizational structure perspective, the power was not equally distributed between the two participants: Jack clearly had much more commanding authority than Ellen. With Andrew involved in a distance manner and
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Besides, regarding to the clients, the JVI had never build up a connection with the client until the surprisingly got the contract, the existence of hierarchy and non-trust between client and project team lead to the inefficiency of obtaining client information, later resulted in Jack’s misleading proposal for market research. Also, because in the concept of high power distance, decision making process is limited one-way participation and communication (In the Eye of the Beholder, cross cultural lessons in leadership from project GLOBE, Mansour Javidan, Peter W. Dorfma, etc), Jack’s own lack of experience on project management made it is possible for the project to diverge from previous direction under one person’s leadership.
Question 3: What alternatives exist at this point? In Andrew’s position, what would you do? Why?
Based on the development of the event, the possible scenarios are 1) The dispute is taken to the JV Committee and Ellen is expelled from the group, taking the blame of being the ineffective leader; 2) recruiting new consultants for the project who have the required qualification and skills to do the job; 3) Jack is replaced by other consultant from JVI with relative more experience in project management. 4) Ellen and Jack communicate the problem and find a way to compromise.
For Andrew, under the obligation of the agreement with Korean company, if the tension between Ellen and Jack cannot
Unlike all the other women in Merrill Lynch, during Leary's first year business went up by 30%! Later on at Merrill Lynch when she has to hire Chung the first thing he asks for is his own private office to deal with Taiwanese business. Then when they start and he is asked to sit at a sales assistant desk (norm) he simply says it is beneath him and refuses to sit there showing us his prominent role confusion. Unlike all the other employees Chung did not sift in the office he spent most of his time outside of the office and attending various events of the Taiwanese community.
b. Bring Miczek and Andrews together to resolve conflicts and sensitize them on the urgency of the situation and motivate them to work together to get all
He is in a huge dilemma and feels he might be held accountable for the current problem. The antecedents that might have lead to the whole scenario are1- Bob has been under a lot of work pressure, as a quarter million had been taken out of his budget, and he had to travel very often for work purpose. 2- Jay did not give Annette a proper orientation to the company, and its culture. He should have also introduced her to all the VPs and other important personnel of the company. 3- Bob was facing certain problems in his personal life, which triggered his anger. 4- Bob was being be threatened by Annette’s new ideas. 5- Annette did not use a proper communication channel. 6- Jay lacked communication skills. 7- Jay is not a good leader. He was very ambivalent. He did not have his fundamental objectives well stated, and did not communicate his concerns to the employees & senior managers. Therefore, all these incidents summed up, and lead to the present problem.
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They had controversial issues "during the first few weeks because they were clearly stepping upon each other's territory". Ellen understood that she was the co-project manager with Jack, but Jack believed that he was the sole project manager for SI. In fact, the Korean team members always followed Jack's instructions which are different from Ellen's. Even, Jack got angry when, upon coming back from business trip, he saw that the team members just followed Ellen's
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3. In your opinion, which of Brent’s alternative courses of action would provide the best outcome and why? What should Brent do? How would you handle the ethical issues involved in this situation?
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