Management

Air Force Materiel Command: Integration & Org. Change (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1993

These re-engineering cases tell the story of a massive reorganization/consolidation that changed the command structure of the US Air Force. Case A examines the decision of Air Force leaders to merge the Air Force Systems Command and the Air...

Air Force Materiel Command: Integration & Org. Change (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1993

These re-engineering cases tell the story of a massive reorganization/consolidation that changed the command structure of the US Air Force. Case A examines the decision of Air Force leaders to merge the Air Force Systems Command and the Air...

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...

Choosing an Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights (Part B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

These cases describe the political challenge faced by Bush administration Attorney General Richard Thornburgh as he sought to identify a nominee to head the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department. The case allows for discussion of the...

Choosing an Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights (Part A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1992

These cases describe the political challenge faced by Bush administration Attorney General Richard Thornburgh as he sought to identify a nominee to head the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department. The case allows for discussion of the...

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...

Fighting Crime in Downtown Oakland: A Public-Private Partnership

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

When crime threatens to undermine revitalization efforts in downtown Oakland, California, local corporate leaders and merchants propose a seemingly simple idea to a fiscally strapped city government. Their proposal: that additional municipal...

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...

Mayor Evan Sweeney: Grievances in the Public Works Department

Publication Date: January 01, 1991

This case is one of a series of hypothetical cases about fictional "Mayor Evan Sweeney," written for executive training programs for new mayors, that frame the quintessential problems faced by municipal chief executives. This case concerns labor...

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...

Baptism of Fire (C)

Publication Date: January 01, 1990

A newly-minted Ph.D.'s course on the economics of international trade becomes embroiled in student controversy when an aggressive male student appears to be challenging the inexperienced female professor--who, in turn, is strongly urged by four...