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- Alcohol and Horseplay: Prank or Problem?
The president of a small, high-tech chemistry company discovered yellow powder on the floor and in the offices and laboratories as he entered work. He soon learned that the powder (fire extinguisher residue) had been dispersed when several employees...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Human Resource Management, Organizational Behaviour
- Allegation of Sexual Harassment (A,B,C&D), An
Professor Stinson, a professor of management at a small, Christian college, was surprised when one of his students, Denise, spoke out in class, accusing the college swim coach of sexually harassing her. Professor Stinson did not know if he should re...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Human Resource Management, Organizational Behaviour
- Astro Tech Fuel Systems
The case centres around the differences in time/goal perspectives between AstroTech's Marketing and Production Departments (line) and its Engineering and Quality Department (staff), headed by a manager who emphasized product quality over quantity an...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Organizational Behaviour
- Challenger: The Path to Disaster (A, B & C)
Was the Challenger disaster of January 1986 inevitable? By tracing its historical antecedents and documenting the final launch decision-making process, we have an opportunity to discover how the tragedy resulted from dynamics that are endemic to eve...
Disciplines: Business - General, Business Ethics, Communications, Organizational Behaviour
- Delta Electronics Corporation, The
The case focuses on the problems of Bob Allan, a promising young MBA, who joins a large national retail sales corporation and soon faces a personal career dilemma in reconciling his goals and values with the demands of the organization. Although he ...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Organizational Behaviour
- Does This Milkshake Taste Funny?
George Stein, a college student employed for the summer by Eastern Dairy, must decide if he is going to remove the filters from the plant's piping and thus allow the current production run of milkshake mix to become contaminated. This course of acti...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Organizational Behaviour
- General Dynamics in the Navajo Nation
This case focuses on Mike Enfield, General Manager of the General Dynamics operation on the Navajo Nation at Fort Defiance, Arizona, as he tries to extend the lease for another 20 years. Enfield has spent more than a year in this delicate process. H...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Human Resource Management, Organizational Behaviour
- Iroquois Container Corporation: Flagstone Operations (A&B)
Female employees in a subsidiary of a large, diversified, male-dominated organization had been subjected to a sexually hostile work environment. In spite of a sexual harassment lawsuit against the company which resulted in a $500,000 settlement bein...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Organizational Behaviour
- Karen's on her Mind
Sally Perkins' supervisor, Miriam Gunther is apparently having an affair with Sally's secretary, Karen. Gunther is spending a lot of time with Karen and wants to take her on a business trip. Although Gunther does not need any more secretarial assist...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Human Resource Management, Organizational Behaviour
- Mansfield Minera’s Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility
This document reports the results of a field study that was conducted October 11-15, 2011. After a description of the context (company, area, and social and environmental factors) and of the field observations, the results are discussed in terms of ...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment, General Management, Leadership, Operations Management, Organizational Behaviour, Resource Extraction, Sustainability
- Nucor Corporation and Worker Safety Issues (A&B)
In less than three decades, Nucor Corporation has risen from near bankruptcy to become the fourth largest steel producer in the United States. Nucor is well known for its effective use of innovative steel-making technologies, a unique management sty...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Human Resource Management, Organizational Behaviour, Policy, Strategic Management
- Outrage at Eastern
Charles Jackson, the plant manager at Eastern Plating, was confronted by a group of angry workers demanding that one of their coworkers, recently charged with molesting his own stepdaughter, not be allowed to return to work. The employees threatened...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Organizational Behaviour
- Professional Exchange Service Organization (PESO)
Vice-President Laura Smith learns from Helen, a PESO board member, that Helen and a paid staff member of the non-profit organization are involved in a homosexual relationship. Seeing a potential conflict of interest, Laura wants Helen to resign from...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Human Resource Management, Organizational Behaviour
- Sarah Norton and Wise Research
Sarah Norton has given up her graduate assistantship in the MBA program at the university to manage the local office of Wise Research. Wise Research collects data for clients in the largest mall in the city. Sarah began her two weeks of training for...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Organizational Behaviour
- Softer Side of Sears: Satisfaction Guaranteed?, The
In September 1997, Sears, Roebuck & Company announced a cost-cutting action that would reduce the life insurance benefits for its retirees. Many retirees were outraged with the news of a reduction in their life insurance coverage- a benefit that the...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Human Resource Management, Organizational Behaviour
- Southeastern Veterinary Hospital or Willie's Revenge
George Paine worked at the Southeastern Veterinary Hospital while in high school and during the summer following his graduation. George's coworkers were sabotaging the veterinary practice because of a personal dislike of the veterinarian, Dr. Bernar...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Organizational Behaviour
- Surprise Notes on the Web-A Professor's Dilemma (A&B)
As part of a business policy course, Professor Stevens and two colleagues have assigned a case to be analyzed and handed in. A week later, Professor Stevens, to his dismay, has two of his students tell him that they have found a case analysis of the...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Human Resource Management, Organizational Behaviour, Policy, Strategic Management
- Therapeutic Touch, The
A female employee in a state mental hospital used sex and current sexual harassment and discriminative regulations to continually harass superiors and coworkers to get her way within the institution. Her threats of discrimination and sexual harassme...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Human Resource Management, Organizational Behaviour
- Vicki Collins: Mentorship or Sexual Harassment? (A&B)
Brad Eckert, a professor at a midwestern university, wondered whether to fight the charges. Clearly, he had never harassed Vicki Collins, although her accusations were being taken quite seriously by the administration. He had advised her to come bac...
Disciplines: Business Ethics, Human Resource Management, Organizational Behaviour
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