In fear of losing her job, she does not report the mistake to her supervisor. How should the employee have handled this situation and what should the supervisor do when the situation is disclosed? How does the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct relate to ethics? Provide examples to support your response. The CFO for a corporation deliberately misstates expenses on the income statement purely out of a sense of loyalty to his CEO and the company.
2. Problem: CanGo’s performance evaluation process appears to be ineffective with no clear criteria that would help the company, managers and the employee’s progress towards the future. Recommendation: CanGo’s current evaluation system, as presented by Warren, is a great start to developing a fair and productive work environment. The system has to be clear and concise so it benefits the employee, manager and ultimately the company. Although CanGo may have a large number of high performing employees, they need to
MBA 540 Chapter 16 Case Study Why Teams Fail The common reason a team or corporate failures is because the leadership failed to convey its vision and purpose all the way down to the lowest level employees. It is crucial for the entire team to be in-tuned and understand why they are working for a common goal. As a result, the lowest level employees can see the big picture and be proud of each accomplishment. A positive working environment is when everyone understands and knows each other's responsibility. Another reason for team failure is free-riders.
I recommend the company should respond to the former employee’s charge of constructive discharge by first apologizing. This former employee has had a negative impact on their life do to our company, and an apology would not hurt the situation. The government has various laws and statues pertaining to constructive discharge, management needs to avoid anything that could be misconstrued as discrimination in the work place. Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) refers to processes and techniques of resolving disputes that fall outside of the judicial process (Alernative Dispute Resolution Law & Legal Definintion, 2011). Legally, this could save the company bad publicity, a great amount of stress, and money that isn’t necessary to spend.
In the primary interest of our entity, its incumbent upon employers to find a right balance between the exceptions to the employment-at-will doctrine to avoid liabilities associated with the violations of the exceptions. The company in this scenario has grounds to terminate the supervisor, but I would issue him/her a written warning hoping that this situation can be resolved among us within our company. This is the case where the potential act of whistle blowing would help reveal the wrongdoing of the business world. I strongly believe that it takes a special person with strong morals to take the ramifications of whistle blowing. Losing a prized job, having to down size your life, and your life being wide open to scrutiny are effects of whistle blowing.
All managers should benchmark the organization in order to assess all of the performance on each shift by providing all of what they can measure in a consistent manner across the organization. Benchmarking is the last step to the process and it is to make sure that everything is complete and in order. In conclusion, action planning may seem detailed, annoying, and are often ignored but an action plan could be very meaningful to a business because it helps the organization complete to reach goals and includes verifying and evaluating which could be helpful to the companies success. Thus an action plan depends on the nature and need of the organization and our team has provided an outstanding action to improve the company’s
The Controlling function: the manager taking charge to make sure all the operations of the organization, are running smoothly and monitors employee’s performance (Robbins & Judge, 2011). We discussed specific and successful managerial activities needed: 1.traditional management 2.communication, and 3.human resource management and networking. The pie charts that were shown in class illustrated percentages that an average manager, successful manager and an effective manager should possess. The overall effective manager would have 44% communication, 26% human resource management, 19% traditional management and 11% networking (Robbins & Judge, 2011). The key to effective managing is communication because individuals have different working styles and
Under this relationship, leaders identify the specific talents of each of their employees, motivate them and coach them towards utilizing their talents effectively. Leaders are also responsible for building trust between them and their subordinates. Leaders involve guiding a group of people toward achieving the best result in and a company. The leadership of a company mainly involves creating a vision for the company. It involves modeling the vision, forming teams, influencing them and aligning people to achieve the set goals.
Best Practices Manual For Supervisors Beth Dillman 10/1/11 Terry Grier MGT 210 In this manual one will find that issues covering some of the best practices to help managers and supervisors on all levels to succeed in their position. It is hoped that this manual will be used daily, and reflects the time and effort that was put into the manual. In this manual many different situations will be discussed and examples of how to deal with employees and situations fairly. Through out the manual all points listed below will be
Organizational structure is the outcome of Organizing. Organizational structure is a formal system of task and reporting relationships that coordinates and motivates members so they work together to achieve organizational goals. In controlling the task of the manager is to evaluate how well an organization has achieved its goals and then take any corrective actions needed to maintain or improve performance. Leading is when managers articulate a clear organizational vision for the organization's members to accomplish, and they also energizes and enables employees so everyone understands the part he or she plays in achieving organizational goals. The four building blocks of a competitive advantage are superior efficiency, innovation, quality and responsiveness to customers.