Case Application : Workplace Stress Can Kill

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

1. What is your reaction to the situations described in this case? What factors, both inside the companies and externally, appear to have contributed to this situation?

2. What appeared to be happening in the France Telecom's workplace? What stress symptoms might have alerted managers to a problem?

3. Should managers be free to make decisions that are in the best interests of the company without worrying about employee reactions? Discuss. What are the implications for managing change?

4. What are France Telecom's and Foxconn's executives doing to address the situation? Do you think it's enough? Are there other actions they might take? If so, describe those actions. If not, why not?

5. What could other companies and managers learn from this situation?

Assignment Guideline

Your essay must contain the following

1. A brief Introduction

Here you outline the relevance/importance of the case and give some idea of what you are going to do in the essay (ie how you are going to structure the essay.

2. Background

Here you provide clear explanations about the organization

What the main issue of the case is

Any other information about the organization/the case that will help understand the issue

Add any information about the organization you obtain yourselves from website searches . Do not Insert too much information (Summaries only). If there is something you wish to attach, put it in Appendix of the Essay. (Word counts DO NOT INCLUDE APPENDICES)

You must use your own words Do not copy information from the case and simply type it. You MUST follow the referencing guidelines provided and you MUST not plagiarise.

3. Case Analysis

Here you should explain how the case relate to "Management" and/or any of the topics in Management

You should discuss the way in which the case help understand the above topic and/or issues.

Here is an example of what you should be doing here

: " this case relates to the issues of planning and control ......It highlights some of the problems that arise when managers try to plan and control. According to the theory about planning \, planning is ...." (Reference textbook). According top

You should be very clear about how what we learnt in management applies to this particular case.

4. Conclusion

What have you learnt from this case ? What can you conclude generally about this case and how it relates to management

5. TWO Questions about the case (and Answers)

Choose 2 of the questions appearing at the end of the case

Suggest how each of these may be answered.

6. REFERENCES

You must reference any material you obtained from any book, website or journals. You must list the reference sources in the way shown in the referencing guide below. You must show that you have searched, accessed and used at least TWO references (journal articles). If you borrow phrases, graphs, table... from the textbook, you must reference these.

Attachment:- WORK PLACE STRESS Case.rar