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Case Description
There is management crisis being reported in Jackson Industry.
The case presents poor interdepartmental working relationship.
The departments are not working together effectively.
There is some lock on the perfect flow of activities in the
organization.
The organization does not have a clear elaboration of work
priorities in the various departments.
There is imbalance in the salary increase among the employees.
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Learning Objectives
Understanding the importance of equality in the organization.
Being able to explain the importance of good relationship in
the workplace.
Being able to understand the proper distribution of the
corporate power.
To clearly define the importance of roles and responsibilities in
the organization.
To elaborate the benefits and limitation of centralization of
roles in the projects like the way the computer department took
all the authority.
The role of the remuneration strategies in an organization.
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• Good technological system.
• Impressive business efficiency depicted by the
continuous growth in the departments.
• Continuous growth in the organization departments
• Strong management and the organization leadership.
• Active computer department.
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• Inappropriate management style.
• Technological crisis
• Lack of equality in income distribution.
• The organization lacks effective project management
system
• Internal disagreements among the stakeholders more
so the management.
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Question 1
? Poor working relationships between the departments.
? There is some battle for leadership among the management.
? Division in the workforce.
? Unequal treatment of the employees in terms salary increment.
? The operating structure of managing projects was not sufficient
? Lack of clear job description resulting to confusion in the work
force.
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Question 2
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The hunger and desire for recognition.
Unhealthy competition among the departments.
Lack of central and stable leadership in the organization.
Poor communication in the chain of command.
Ineffective team-working and responsibility in the
organization.
? The organization lacked the project management operation
department.
? No communication and alignment between the teams.
? No service level agreement
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Question 3
His general understanding of the business operations
and profitability.
Discussions with other members of the organization
operations.
Knowledge of the business strategy
He was quite subjective in his selection probably
because he saw he could decide all the requests.
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Question 4
The computer group have taken so much power in their
hands.
The other departments cannot operate freely like the case
of the engineering department not being able to write
programs.
They even want to be paid more claiming through Gregg
that they are doing so much.
The act as a parallel department within Jackson Industry.
The department also jumps into other department roles.
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Question 5
? The president does not have good understanding of computers.
? He claims that it is the cause of the problems the organizations
are experiencing.
? His inefficient understanding of the computers makes him to
advocate for their eradication.
? The first part of the case brings it out that he hates the
technology and sees it as the result of problems in the
organization.
? He has this believe that the communication breakdown in the
organization is as a result of the technology.
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Question 6
? The creation of MIS will have significant implication
on the salary disparity problem.
? It will enhance the flow of information and so the
management will have conclusive information of what
goes on in every department.
? It will give more information about the contribution of
every department to the organization profitability.
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Question 7
? There was luck of good corporate direction in the
organization.
? The organization was being run by some sort of
divided source of command.
? Some departments like the computer appeared to be
having more power than the others.
? There was no clear division of the power and
authority.
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Question 8
? Central source of power and command in the
organization.
? Fair distribution of salaries and other benefits among
the workforce.
? Introduction of modern management styles in the
organization
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? Central source of power and command in the organization.
? Fair distribution of salaries and other benefits among the
workforce.
? Introduction of modern management styles in the
organization
? Need to take place and network event and team building
exercise
? Introduction of fair pay structure to balance the salary in
the workforce.
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? Inappropriate management may cause poor performance
in the organization.
? The source of power and the development of the same
significantly impact the organization performance.
? Lack of properly centered management causes the
organization to shake and become unstable.
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Jackson Industries
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Review Questions:
1. What are the basic problems in the case?
2. What is the rationale for the problem?
3. How does Gregg know what is best for the company?
4. Are the computer groups taking on too much power?
5. Does the president understand computers?
6. Will the creation of an MIS group solve the salary disparity problem?
7. Was there good corporate direction?
8. What are your recommendations?
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MBA530 Managing Strategic Business Projects
Business Case Evaluation Criteria
Ref
Marks
Categories
Ref
1
W%
16
Criteria
Identifying Case
Challenges & Strengths
2
16
Creativity to Explain the
Case
3
16
Analysis & Answers of
Case and Audience
Questions
4
16
Recommendations
5
20
Originality
6
16
Writing & Presentation
College of Business
A
100%
Excellent
B
85%
Very Good
Clear
Specific
Concise
Accurate
Add new slides based on
student’s own research
and ideas to further
explain the case and
intended concepts
? Apply A1 attributes in
addressing all casebased and audiencebased questions
? Accurate but not concise
nor specific
? Accurately address all
challenges with
supportive arguments
from students’ own
knowledge & experience
? All work is the students’
own thoughts and ideas
(can be based on
personal, work
experience, or published
research)
? Engage all audience
throughout using ‘right’
volume, posture,
confidence,
enthusiasm,…
? Using A1 attributes on all
slides.
? All team members have
equal shares to discuss
and answer.
? Address all challenges at
a level of details to
convince the audience
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C
75%
Good
D
65%
Adequate
F
35%
Poor
? Gain an overall
understanding of the
whole case
? Overall understanding of
only key concepts of the
case
? The author has no clear
idea on what the case is
all about
? Add new original and
creative ideas but only
limited to key concepts
of the case
? The added creativity
mainly based on the
information presented in
the case
? Limited creativity; mainly
formatting and
animation
? No creativity, a plane
and dry presentation of
information
? Attempt and address all
case review questions
? Provide accurate
answers to the audience
questions but with minor
issues
? Address major questions
but omit minor questions
(one or two questions)
? Provide accurate
answers to some
audience questions but
missed major supportive
arguments to others
? Accurately addressed all
key challenges but
missed minor ones
? No preparation of
expected audience
questions
? Exhibit some ability to
address the questions
but mostly differed or
wrong
? Missed major case
questions and present
wrong answers to the
rest
? No preparation for
audience questions
? Inability to manage the
Q&A session
? The recommendation did
not address all issues
or/and missed key
business challenges
? Present original views
but slightly modified from
diverse resources
? Major adoption of others’
work but managed to
add own taste and
exploitation
? Clear influence of
external resource(s) on
the student’s approach
? Little addition of own
views
? Cut & paste presentation
and/or answers
? Purchasing the case
solution and use as-is
? Managed to capture all
audience but with minor
issues.
? Still good command of
6A attributes.
? Managed to capture the
attention of majority of
audience.
? Missed some 6A
attributes.
? Captured the attention of
only a minority of the
audience.
? Missed most of 6A
attributes.
? No consideration is
given to engage the
audience.
? Presentation is
dominated by the views
of one (or more)
member.
? Addressed all case
challenges but mostly
inappropriate
Notes:
? Ref’s are used to reference particular cell for description and discussion, e.g. 1A refers to the top left cell and 6F refers to the bottom right cell.
? Each criteria carry a weight (W) from 16% to 20%; dictated by the course learning outcomes and as allocated by the instructor; note in all cases the maximum obtainable mark is 100%.
? The markets of the ‘criteria boundaries’ may change as seen appropriate by the instructor.
? The matrix is subject to change and may differ for different exercises and practices.
? During the presentation and subsequent evaluation of the submitted work, the instructor will allocate a mark (1-100) for each criteria, then use Excel worksheet to calculate final mark and grade.
Dr. MA Kafaji
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