Scenario-Based Questions You Have Successfully Managed One of the Plants

question 41

Multiple Choice

Scenario-Based Questions You have successfully managed one of the plants of your company over a period of 5 years. You built a climate of openness and trust in your plant and have a longstanding history of honesty, dialogue, and teamwork. Based on your record of success, you have just been transferred to a much larger but less successful plant. This plant has a history of union-management conflict and the last plant manager had to be hospitalized due to stress.
-After a long process of data collection and discovery, you and the committee decide on a course of action. The first step involves going back to the different employee groups to tell them about the plan. The best approach to take is to:

• A) be clear and firm about the planned course of action.
• B) propose the course of action and invite feedback.
• C) map out how this plan will affect future compensation.
• D) none of the above; you have already spent too much time in meetings.

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