Question 1. A re-organization will require that some employees are provided severance packages while other reassigned. What interpersonal managerial roles developed by Mintzberg will a manager confronted with this employ? Explain.
Question 2. A manager has decided to use the Hawthorne Studies to improve productivity in an office. How would she accomplish this? Would the results be short- or long-term? Explain.
Question 3. Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman argued that, "there is one and only one social responsibility of business?use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game" (Friedman, 1962, p. 133). Do you agree with Friedman? Explain.
Question 4. Please evaluate this scenario by detailing what the manager would do for each step in the decision-making process.
i) Two employees are blaming each other for a project they collaborated on which failed.
ii) The department's last three hirers all quit within six months.
Question 5. Competition with China has eviscerated many American industries, how can women's clothing companies compete? Car companies? Please use Michael Porter competitive advantage categories: cost leadership strategy, differentiation strategy, and niche in your answer. Explain.