Sophia Reddy, an accountant in her late 20s, is assigned to participate in a special project in Alicamber LLC's Nashville office. The project involves accounting valuation analysis of an insurance firm, and she will spend two weeks on-site with the team and work remotely from Chicago with Thomas Kerbakker, the project leader. Sophia initially looks forward to the opportunity to learn from colleagues in another city and work on the Nashville project. However, she has not received any text messages from Thomas, which irritates her as she fears her specialized knowledge for the project may not be valued or the project may be delayed, impacting her schedule. On the third morning, Sophia checks in with her Chicago partner who assigned her to the Nashville project. They inform her that Thomas is one of the near-retirement employees who doesn't do text messages, and staff in the Nashville office typically speak to him in person or over the phone. The partner acknowledges the importance of scheduling but also mentions that the project won't begin for another month. Sophia decides to send Thomas an email, which is more formal than her earlier text message, with a subject line, greeting, salutation, and company signature lines. She even changes "Thomas" to "Mr. Kerbakker" in the greeting. Thomas responds with terse comments, which Sophia finds bewildering and dejected. He seems too busy to welcome her and doesn't seem to care about her involvement in the project. Sophia increasingly regrets being assigned to the Nashville assignment, as she realizes it won't be as enjoyable as she thought. Identify one or more symptoms that something has gone wrong here. Analyze the causes of these symptom(s) using one or more communication concepts from this chapter. What do you recommend that Sophia do at this time regarding her interaction with Thomas and the Nashville team? Assume that Sophia cannot back out of her assignment to the Nashville project. What should Alicamber LLC do to minimize these problems in the long run?
Critical Path Method
The critical path is the longest succession of tasks that has to be successfully completed to conclude a project entirely. The tasks involved in the sequence are called critical activities, as any task getting delayed will result in the whole project getting delayed. To determine the time duration of a project, the critical path has to be identified. The critical path method or CPM is used by project managers to evaluate the least amount of time required to finish each task with the least amount of delay.
Cost Analysis
The entire idea of cost of production or definition of production cost is applied corresponding or we can say that it is related to investment or money cost. Money cost or investment refers to any money expenditure which the firm or supplier or producer undertakes in purchasing or hiring factor of production or factor services.
Inventory Management
Inventory management is the process or system of handling all the goods that an organization owns. In simpler terms, inventory management deals with how a company orders, stores, and uses its goods.
Project Management
Project Management is all about management and optimum utilization of the resources in the best possible manner to develop the software as per the requirement of the client. Here the Project refers to the development of software to meet the end objective of the client by providing the required product or service within a specified Period of time and ensuring high quality. This can be done by managing all the available resources. In short, it can be defined as an application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to meet the objective of the Project. It is the duty of a Project Manager to achieve the objective of the Project as per the specifications given by the client.
Sophia Reddy, an accountant in her late 20s, is assigned to participate in a special project in Alicamber LLC's Nashville office. The project involves accounting valuation analysis of an insurance firm, and she will spend two weeks on-site with the team and work remotely from Chicago with Thomas Kerbakker, the project leader. Sophia initially looks forward to the opportunity to learn from colleagues in another city and work on the Nashville project. However, she has not received any text messages from Thomas, which irritates her as she fears her specialized knowledge for the project may not be valued or the project may be delayed, impacting her schedule.
On the third morning, Sophia checks in with her Chicago partner who assigned her to the Nashville project. They inform her that Thomas is one of the near-retirement employees who doesn't do text messages, and staff in the Nashville office typically speak to him in person or over the phone. The partner acknowledges the importance of
Sophia decides to send Thomas an email, which is more formal than her earlier text message, with a subject line, greeting, salutation, and company signature lines. She even changes "Thomas" to "Mr. Kerbakker" in the greeting. Thomas responds with terse comments, which Sophia finds bewildering and dejected. He seems too busy to welcome her and doesn't seem to care about her involvement in the project.
Sophia increasingly regrets being assigned to the Nashville assignment, as she realizes it won't be as enjoyable as she thought.
- Identify one or more symptoms that something has gone wrong here.
- Analyze the causes of these symptom(s) using one or more communication concepts from this chapter.
- What do you recommend that Sophia do at this time regarding her interaction with Thomas and the Nashville team? Assume that Sophia cannot back out of her assignment to the Nashville project.
- What should Alicamber LLC do to minimize these problems in the long run?
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