1. How is this decision emblematic of your job as a manager?
Management is getting work done through others. The manager in the exercise has been a manager for nearly a year. The manager will clue in on all of those points when she meets with Andrew about his second job
· As a Top-Manager, one must effectively plan, control, organize, and, most importantly, lead. When leading, one must assume whatever role necessary for the situation; in this instance it is the resource allocator role, however, incorporating workplace democracy and partly taking the negotiator role by allowing the employees to have a say in what resources are to be cut will indeed have a much more beneficial effect on morale as opposed to authoritarian leadership. After all, your job consists of people development, not to be the sole problem solver for “subordinates”.