Job Enrichment (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1980

In Part A, management of a federal claims processing division decides to restructure the operation in order to promote employee morale and efficiency. Organizational restructuring is based on the concept of "semi-autonomous task teams,"...

Equal Employment Opportunity

Publication Date: January 01, 1980

In this disguised case, a senior manager in a federal agency must decide whether to approve the promotion of a secretary. The agency's personnel officer and chief administrative officer have argued that he should okay the promotion, even though...

Eastern Tennessee University (C)

Publication Date: January 01, 1980

In this disguised case, the union representing maintenance, food service, and custodial workers at Eastern Tennessee University votes to go on strike after the administration, led by President Alan Carswell, refuses to make any further...

Eastern Tennessee University (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1980

In this disguised case, the union representing maintenance, food service, and custodial workers at Eastern Tennessee University votes to go on strike after the administration, led by President Alan Carswell, refuses to make any further...

Eastern Tennessee University (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1980

In this disguised case, the union representing maintenance, food service, and custodial workers at Eastern Tennessee University votes to go on strike after the administration, led by President Alan Carswell, refuses to make any further...

Case of Disgruntled Employee (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1980

Robert Morgenstern, a new and inexperienced manager of a recently created internal audit team in a federal agency, tries to salvage an unsatisfactory employee and fails, with an unexpected resulting problem for himself when he tries to ease the...

Case of Disgruntled Employee

Publication Date: January 01, 1980

Robert Morgenstern, a new and inexperienced manager of a recently created internal audit team in a federal agency, tries to salvage an unsatisfactory employee and fails, with an unexpected resulting problem for himself when he tries to ease the...

Equal Employment Opportunity (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1980

In this disguised case, a senior manager in a federal agency must decide whether to approve the promotion of a secretary. The agency's personnel officer and chief administrative officer have argued that he should okay the promotion, even though...

The Community Reinvestment Act (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1980

In 1977, Congress passed the Community Reinvestment Act requiring financial institutions to meet the credit needs of the communities in which they were located, including those low-income communities to which loans had been consistently denied...

The Community Reinvestment Act

Publication Date: January 01, 1980

In 1977, Congress passed the Community Reinvestment Act requiring financial institutions to meet the credit needs of the communities in which they were located, including those low-income communities to which loans had been consistently denied...

CIA to 1961

Publication Date: January 1, 1980

This case traces the organizational history of the Central Intelligence Agency from its establishment after World War II to its role in the Bay of Pigs invasion. It outlines key factors that served to shape the CIA's institutional identity and...

Ethical Problems in Public Careers: Lying

Publication Date: January 01, 1980

This case consists of ten "minicases"--some fictitious and some drawn from actual events--that involve instances of deception in public affairs. Students are asked, via an answer sheet at the back, to judge whether the deceptions were, on...