Diamond Trucks Case Study Essay

Assessment Cover Sheet
Course Title: EMGT N305 Organizational Behavior
Instructor’s name: Peter Robertson
Assessment title: Assessment 02V1
Date: 15th December 2011
Section: C1B
Duration of this assessment: Due by December 30th 2011
Assessment Weighting: 30%
Submit through BB Vista or E-Mail peter.robertson@hct.ac.ae
Exam

Questions and Assessed Learning Outcomes | Allocated marks or percentage weights within the assignment |
Q1, 2,3,4   LO1 – LO7 | 90 |
Q5 – LO7       | 10 |
Total: | 100 |

Warning!
Assessments: Individual Work Please. By not obeying these rules student commits plagiarism, and faces the possibility of immediate dismissal from ADMC and from all other colleges of HCT.  

Student Name: Mohamed Ali Al Marzouqi ID Number:   H00005248 |

Instructions to students

  * Read the mini case studies before answering the case study questions.
  * Use theory and examples from the case in all your mini case study answers.
  * Answer all questions in the space provided under each question.

DIAMOND TRUCKS CASE STUDY

DIAMOND Trucks is owned by Bombardier, a Canadian multinational organization primarily concerned with the manufacture and marketing of trucks and buses. Trucks for the Arabian markets are assembled in Sharjah in a converted car plant covering 50,000 square meters. Since it opened in 2002, production has increased significantly and production plans suggest that a continued increase is possible for some time to come.   In 2008 it produced around 40 trucks a day, which increased to 75 in 2009 and this will shortly almost double again by the introduction of a second production shift in the factory.

There are just three levels of management in the plant including the Managing Director and seven Senior Managers. The Managing Director and all but two of the Senior Managers are Canadian and a mix of males and females. The remaining two Senior Managers are male Emiratis. Below them on the third level of management...