Cases with Teaching Plans

Who Should Own What? Choosing a Public Sector in a Newly Capitalist State

Publication Date: January 01, 1993

The process of privatization of state-owned industries looms as one the most difficult social, economic, and political challenges of our era. This case examines the dilemma as seen through the prism of Hungary where the newly-established State...

Disability Issues in the Workplace

Publication Date: January 01, 1993

This composite case explores the managerial, ethical, and logistical issues that arise when a federal employee is diagnosed with breast cancer and has difficulty dealing with her job responsibilities and co-worker reactions. The case ends with...

The Treuhandanstalt: Taking a Nation Private

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

The dramatic merger of the former East and West Germanys led to an historic mission for a new agency: the sale to private buyers of the vast assets of the former East Germany. The agency created for the purpose was the Treuhandanstalt, conceived...

Hungary: Forging New Channels of Communication

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

The collapse of communism in Hungary, as in other Eastern European countries and the former Soviet Union itself, has not led smoothly to a democratic government in its place. The transition from a government which is, in most ways, an extension...

Incentives for Excellence at the Colorado State Hospital

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

The successful efforts of an energetic director to improve conditions at the Colorado State Hospital lead to an unexpected consequence: legislative budget committee members, after a tour, take the view that the hospital, because it looked so...

Ordering Floppy Disks in Poland

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

This five-paragraph case presents the process by which a basic office supply item had to be ordered by Polish government officials in January 1992.Learning Objective:As in many brief cases, the deceptively simple procedural description can...

Dealing with Corruption in the Police Force of La Paz (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

A reform mayor of Bolivia's capital city is taken aback by a consultant's report showing a shocking level of corruption on the part of municipal police-a force whose many duties involve regulation of the city's sprawling open-air markets...

Dealing with Corruption in the Police Force of La Paz

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

A reform mayor of Bolivia's capital city is taken aback by a consultant's report showing a shocking level of corruption on the part of municipal police-a force whose many duties involve regulation of the city's sprawling open-air markets...

Walking a Fine Line: Qualifications and Equal Opportunity in the Charlotte Fire Department

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

Between the mid-1970s and early 1990s, the fire department in Charlotte, North Carolina, successfully integrated women firefighters into the formerly all-male department. To do so, the city deftly adjusted testing procedures so that neither male...

Case of the Non-Performing Employee

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

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...

New Kingdoms for the Five Kings: Discriminatory Redistricting and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This case explores the decade-long political struggle over the geography of districts to be represented by members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, and the implication of the district lines for the political representation of...

Three Cases about Sexual Harassment

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

These three cases, sold together as one set, can stand alone or be used in a single class discussion. They raise different issues regarding diversity in the workplace. They are written about the experience of women but can elicit conversation...