Case summary:
Person K is the production manager for Company A, that manufactures office equipment. He read an article in the newspaper “stressed the benefit of participative management” and believed that those benefits would be recognised in his department.
The first decision is about vacation schedules. On this decision, the group changed into deadlocked and he would have to solve the disputes by himself. The second decision is about production standards. New machineries and equipment’s helps the workers to yield more production without working harder. Thus the savings can be used to pay new machineries and equipment.
The workers recommended the management to keep the same production standards. The spokesperson explained that their basic salary pay had not saved up with the inflation rates and the management add incentives to their basic pay to its previous level.
To evaluate: Leadership style of person K before and during his experiment in participative management style.
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