Business Administration 1220E Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Union Representative

• School: Western University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: Business Administration 1220E
• Professor: Sergio Janczak

Document Summary

Carl jones had to deal with an employee that made bad decisions, but he had to act in accordance with union agreements etc: joe podivinski had a history of filing complaints against supervisors. Theories that can assist this case; motivation, Supervisors need to be able to respond to the company, as part of the leadership- need to think big picture and act in the company"s best interest. Joe has some power in this situation as well, because he can file grievances, and he has charismatic power to his fellow employees by challenging upper management. To be recognized by fellow employees when he challenges managers. So the issue doesn"t escalate with joe or other employees. Send a message to employees to keep them engaged and motivated; performance evaluations, weekly input meetings, make them realize that. If you are not sure what will happen with your action plan you need to outline more than one scenario.