craftsmanship is incompatible with increasing productivity in this company.

We Want More Guitars! Adam Wainwright’s early morning phone call from Valencia, Spain, initially startled his boss, Vincent Fletcher. Adam, a true slave to the latest techno-gadgetry, never called. Yet here he was at 8:00 a.m. Pacific time on the phone to the CEO of Fletcher Guitars in Los Angeles. “What did they do—lose your […]

New Jersey–based company started by this psychiatrist-turnedentrepreneur

Ah biotech 86 Dr. Abraham Hassan knew he couldn’t put off the decision any longer. AH Biotech, the Bound Brook, New Jersey–based company started by this psychiatrist-turnedentrepreneur, had developed a novel drug that seemed to promise long-term relief from panic attacks. If it gained approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), it would be […]

Achieving one’s personal goals is more important than achieving team or organization goals

What Are Your Social Values?93 A global environment requires that managers have to deal with people who hold many different values and ideas. Respond to each of the following statements based on your beliefs, indicating whether the statement is Mostly True or Mostly False for you. Mostly True Mostly False 1. Achieving one’s personal goals […]

a key product developer at Chem-Tech Corporation

Should We Go beyond the Law?85 Nathan Rosillo stared out his office window at the lazy curves and lush, green, flower-lined banks of the Dutch Valley River. He’d grown up near here, and he envisioned the day his children would enjoy the river as he had as a child. But now his own company might […]

Pace had the reputation for aggressive business intelligence.

Too Much intelligence? The rapid growth of Pace Technologies was due in no small part to sales manager Ken Bodine and to the skills of the savvy young sales staff he had assembled. Bodine prided himself on finding and hiring top grads from two major business schools in the area. In addition to the top […]

the business and the department of transportation in their state.

Black-Jack Antiques For 13 years, Jeremy Black and Kevin Jack worked in adjoining cubicles for the department of transportation in their state. Although Kevin was 8 years older than Jeremy, the two men developed a strong friendship. They grumbled about their humdrum jobs (decent pay, great benefits, no excitement or chance for advancement) and argued […]

heavily recruited CEO of a high-technology start-up backed by several of Silicon Valley’s leading venture capitalist

Closing the Deal81 As the new, heavily recruited CEO of a high-technology start-up backed by several of Silicon Valley’s leading venture capitalists, Chuck Campbell is flying high—great job, good salary, stock options, and a chance to be in on the ground floor and build one of the truly great twenty-firstcentury organizations. Just a few days […]

Delivering a Library Orientation Tour.

To complete this task, you will design a short session to be run for another individual, on using an information resource in a library. You should choose one of the following: The library catalogue A database (i.e. any one available through the VU catalogue, or a Gulliver database in a public library) A web search […]

several challenges faced by the film industry in Bhuan.

The right to information and freedom of speech, opinion and expression; along with the freedom of press, radio, television and other forms of electronic information disseminators are considered the fundamental rights of all Bhutanese in The Constitution of the Kingdom of Bhutan. Keeping this in mind, the Bhutan Information, Communications and Media Act 2006 (BICM […]

The ERM process also identified a number of potential negative consequences that could result from the use of social media

XYZ is a non-governmental international organization based in The Netherlands. To date, XYZ has primarily utilized ‘old media’ (Jenkins, 2006) to engage with stakeholder communities and promote its achievements. In the absence of any perceived business-need, access to social media sites is blocked on the internal Information and Communication Technology (ICT) networks. Furthermore, employees are […]