Subject category:
Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour
Published by:
Harvard Business Publishing
Version: 25 October 2011
Revision date: 9-Nov-2011
Length: 14 pages
Data source: Generalised experience
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Abstract
Marc Fontaine, a new manager at a global manufacturing company, is on a fast-track to a senior managerial position. One morning, in a storage room, he discovers ornamental artifacts made with the same materials used for official production. He suspects workers have been making these items with company materials. At that moment, a worker enters the room to fetch a tool. Fontaine asks what is going on with these items, but the worker claims ignorance and quickly leaves. Fontaine is meeting his boss and the plant director that afternoon. What should he do? Say something? Pretend nothing happened? This case deals with group dynamics, informal behaviors, and ethics at work.
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Marc Fontaine, a new manager at a global manufacturing company, is on a fast-track to a senior managerial position. One morning, in a storage room, he discovers ornamental artifacts made with the same materials used for official production. He suspects workers have been making these items with company materials. At that moment, a worker enters the room to fetch a tool. Fontaine asks what is going on with these items, but the worker claims ignorance and quickly leaves. Fontaine is meeting his boss and the plant director that afternoon. What should he do? Say something? Pretend nothing happened? This case deals with group dynamics, informal behaviors, and ethics at work.
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Size:
800 employees