1. Your company has a policy that employees can participate in an educational tuition reimbursement program, provided that the degree obtained will benefit the company and that the employee's immediate superior gives his permission. As a project manager, you authorize George, your assistant project manager who reports directly to you, to take courses leading to an MBA degree. Midway through your project, you find that overtime is required on Monday and Wednesday evenings, the same two evenings that George has classes. George cannot change the evenings that his classes are offered. You try without success to reschedule the overtime to early mornings or other evenings. According to company policy, the project office must supervise all overtime. Since the project office consists of only you and George, you must perform the overtime if George does not. How should you handle this situation? Would your answer change if you thought that George might leave the company after receiving his degree?
2. Which organizational form would be best for the following corporate strategies? Why?
a. Developing, manufacturing, and marketing many diverse but interrelated technological products and materials
b. Having market interests that span virtually every major industry
c. Becoming multinational with a rapidly expanding global business
d. Working in
3. Do cost overruns just happen, or are they caused?