Assignment:
• Analyze Mitchell's four factors of effective business partnerships.
• Analyze a successful business partnership, indicating which of the four factors were present.
• Analyze a failed business partnership, indicating which of the four factors were absent.
• Is it possible for a business partnership to succeed when none of the four factors are present? Under what circumstances?
• Examine HR's responsibilities in a proposed business partnership where only two of the four factors are present.
• How should HR advise the CEO in this situation?
• From an HR perspective, which two factors do you consider to be most important, and why?