Bradley Marquez Case Study

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Bradley Marquez Case Study The case study this week that is being evaluated is Bradley Marquez: Reduction in Force. The case study discusses factors that were used in making decisions on how to reduce the work force at Bradley Marquez. Bradley Marquez like all other business during the early 2000s had to make adjustments on how the business was going to operate moving forward. The financials in this company led upper management to evaluate the work force. The final decision that Bradley Marquez made was to close one of their offices that was not performing at desired levels. The reduction took place but did not fully take Bradley Marquez to the financial levels desired. Bradley Marquez was forced to make another decision to reduce the workforce. The process in which to make this decision became cloudy because of how the reduction at the Vail office took place. There is one question that is left unanswered at the end of the case. The question is how to carry out the layoffs? It leaves us to evaluate all avenues of how to achieve the reduction moving forward. I believe the main problem in the case was the complacency of the entire workforce at Bradley Marquez after the initial downsizing of the workforce. The workforce was lead to believe that there were not any financial problems at Bradley Marquez. The workforce felt that with the closing of the Vail office that all the financial problems would disappear for Bradley Marquez. The reason the main problem occurred is the communication breakdown from upper management to the entire workforce. Upper management felt that the financial problems did not need to be communicated to all offices around the world. I think upper management felt the decision to close Vail would bring the company back to profitability. (Delong and Vijayaraghavan, 2002)This conclusion would keep a positive environment in all the offices and

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