Subject category:
Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour
Published by:
Darden Business Publishing
Length: 7 pages
Data source: Field research
Abstract
This note describes an example of overworking in a non-U.S. culture, Iran. The CFO of a successful office-machine-supply company has overworked consistently for years, and suddenly finds himself at the hospital after a terrible accident caused by his having fallen asleep at the wheel on his way home. Company executives think they have solved the problem in one afternoon.
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Abstract
This note describes an example of overworking in a non-U.S. culture, Iran. The CFO of a successful office-machine-supply company has overworked consistently for years, and suddenly finds himself at the hospital after a terrible accident caused by his having fallen asleep at the wheel on his way home. Company executives think they have solved the problem in one afternoon.