1) People: Separate people from the problem. Even though both the people and the problem are important, the personal aspect of the conflict should be separated from the problem to deal with it better. On personality clashes, the focus should be on behaviour and not on people. 2) Interests: Focus on interests and not position\s This principle…
– ‘I am in-charge – see it my way or I will fire you’. This is generally perceived as self- defeating. – Conflict arrangement sometimes means tolerating and even inviting some forms of conflict – Manager’s task is to create climate in which conflicts are addressed constructively – Personality conflicts are ranked relatively low in intensity but they are…
– Conflicts over schedules, depending mostly on support depts. but where managers do not have any control. – Conflicts over which is the most important dept or function at a given time – Conflicts over personnel resources – Conflicts over technical issues – Conflicts over administrative procedures – Personality conflicts – Conflicts over costs
1. Ethical values and their full complexity are widely acknowledged and appreciated by managers and engineers. Neither profits nor promoting the interests of the organization is neglected but the moral limits on profit-seeking go beyond simply obeying the law and avoiding fraud. 2. The sincere use of ethical language is recognized as a legitimate part of corporate…
There are highly ethical organizations, examples of some of which are given below: 1. Marilyn Hamilton, founded Quickie Designs in 1980, who was a teacher and athlete who was paralyzed in hang-gliding accident. A highly mobile and versatile wheel chair was designed weighing 26 pounds, half the weight of chairs that were currently produced. The company…
• Nobel laureate Milton Friedman said ‘The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits……. The responsibility of managers is to conduct business in accordance with their stockholders’ desires, which generally will be to make as much money as possible while conforming to he basic rules of society, both those embodied in law and those…
Engineers undergo the most intensive technical training amongst professionals. But still, many of them move to managerial positions early in their career for which they received no training. Organizations find it easier to teach the business side to engineers than teaching engineering to non-engineers. They also value the quantitative analysis, strong work-ethics, and confidence in…
Richard L.Meehan, a civil engg graduate from MIT, was retained by General Electric as a consultant to testify before Nuclear Regulatory Commission about the capability of GE’s nuclear plant in California, U.S.A. to withstand earthquakes. He found, while trying to understand the effect of earthquakes on nuclear plants, that 1. His basic study of physics is…
1. Even now, shells (duds or live) which landed about 90 years back during World War I are found by farmers during ploughing. Special bomb disposal squads are being kept busy with hundreds of calls. 2. There are, still more, unexploded and hidden bombs allover the world that fell during World War II 3. Severed limbs and dead …
1. Large military build-ups: $2 billion cost overrun on the development of C5-A cargo plane reported to the public by Ernest Fitzgerald due to poor operating efficiencies in defense industry. He pointed out how large suppliers felt secure in not complying to cost-cutting plans but small contractors were willing. 25% firms hold 50%of all defense …