Situation
A sales manager receives a call from a customer. The customer is concerned because the company salesperson has not made a call to her business in over ten weeks. As a result, she is out of stock on some critical items, causing her own production to become inefficient. When the sales manager confronts the rep about this action, he does not deny the story. Instead, he insists he was acting consistently with company policy that places a high value on maximizing shareholder wealth. His quotas are tied to this goal, and he believes that providing sales and service support to small customers undermines his effort to obtain sales from better customers. Assume you were the sales manager; how would you react to the salesperson? What tools or knowledge might assist you in resolving the dilemma