A private company known for efficiency, transparency and employee welfare is gatecrashed by about 40 members of a political party demanding jobs, threatening management and employees and demoralizing staff. The company maintains high integrity and does not extend favours to civil administration or law enforcement. As CEO:(a) what would you do immediately to diffuse the volatile situation;(b) what could be the long-term solution; and(c) analyze the positive and negative consequences of each action for you, employees and company performance.
What the examiner wants
For the case beginning ‘A private company known for efficiency, transparency and employee welfare is gatecrashed by about 40 members of a political party’, resolve the Case Study dilemma by identifying its specific stakeholders and competing duties, comparing feasible options, and choosing a legally defensible, ethically reasoned course with safeguards.
Demand-wise check
- 1From the exact case cue ‘A private company known for efficiency, transparency and employee welfare is gatecrashed by about 40 members of a political p’, identify the stakeholders and ethical/legal conflicts specific to this situation≈65 words
- 2For ‘A private company known for efficiency, transparency and employee welfare is gatecrashed by about 40 members of a political p’, compare the decision-maker's feasible options, including consequences, rights/duties and implementation risks for each option≈65 words
- 3For ‘A private company known for efficiency, transparency and employee welfare is gatecrashed by about 40 members of a political p’, justify a preferred course with due process, transparency/accountability safeguards and concrete follow-up measures≈65 words
Open in about 30 words and close in about 30.
Answer plan
Where marks usually go
- For the case cue ‘A private company known for efficiency, transparency and employee welfare is gatecrashed by about 40 members of a politi’, avoid merely retelling facts without separating its stakeholders, conflicts and decision criteria
- For the case cue ‘A private company known for efficiency, transparency and employee welfare is gatecrashed by about 40 members of a politi’, do not choose an option without testing legality, feasibility, consequences and accountability safeguards
Value addition
- Stakeholder–dilemma–option matrix with a short decision flow
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Official source anchors
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