Case 1.1 ​John and Mabel's Company,High-Tech Solutions,is a Medium-Sized High-Tech Firm with High-Tech

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Case 1.1
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John and Mabel's company,High-Tech Solutions,is a medium-sized high-tech firm with a core employee group of highly skilled professionals.Around this core is a group of twice as many part-time contract programmers and other computer professionals.As they win programming contracts,they hire contract workers.When work slows,they let the part-timers go but keep their core group.Their target industries are facing increasing government scrutiny and possible regulation due to the number of firms that are doing poor work and causing long-term problems for customers.
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John believes that,when hiring for either the core group or for the part-time work force,they must consider not only each candidate's technical work skills and competency but also several other factors as well: the candidate's emotional control,team orientation,self-awareness,and self-esteem,and what the company has to offer the candidate in terms of family support.Mabel agrees to a degree.She thinks that the key to productivity and quality is hiring the right people,but she wants to focus more on technical competencies and less on the other areas John mentions.
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High-Tech Solutions uses teams extensively.Employees are trained in how to work in teams,handle conflict,work cooperatively,etc.Joan,a five-year veteran at High-Tech,plays softball in a church league with several of her coworkers.She has asked for investment advice from a couple of the work-group members who are heavily into the stock market.She,in general,highly enjoys her work because of the relationships she has with her coworkers.In sharp contrast,one of the new employees is having a hard time with her supervisor.She wants greater independence and more affirming feedback.The supervisor wants to be sure the new employee can do her job,so he is supervising closely and is giving a lot of corrective feedback.
-Refer to Case 1.1.The new employee's difficulty with her supervisor is an example of

• A) a current growing trend that makes human relations skills important in the workplace.
• B) sexual harassment.
• C) the challenge of managing one of the key human relationships each of us has.
• D) the concept of providing a supportive work environment for today's employee.

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Definitions:

Competitive Market

A market structure characterized by a large number of buyers and sellers, where no single entity has the power to significantly influence market prices.

Horizontal Summation

A method used in economics to determine the total market demand for a product by adding together the individual demands at each price level.

Demand Curves

Graphs showing the relationship between the price of a good and the quantity demanded by consumers, typically downward sloping.

Market Demand

The total quantity of a good or service that all consumers in a market are willing to purchase at various prices.