CASE : SUNDER CHEMICALS
Sunder Chemicals was established in the year 1965 with about 40 workers and was manufacturing a couple of pharmaceutical products. After three years of initial crisis, the company found itself in a very prosperous situation. In 1999, the company employed about 5,000 employees working in 15 different departments. -
Mr. Parikh was incharge of the Tablet department having about 50 workers. In the day shift, Parikh was assisted by Mr. Patel for the general supervision of the department. Mr. Joshi was one of the workers in the Tablet department about whom Patel did not have a good opinion as Joshi was in the habit of remaining absent without leave. Patel often found him taking leave under false pretexts. Patel did not have any other complaint about Joshi.
One day Joshi approached Patel with a request to grant him leave for a week, as he wanted to go for a pilgrimage with his family. Patel this time flatly refused to grant leave to him saying that he was not prepared to believe him considering his past record. Joshi felt very sorry about this and seemed to be disturbed.
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QUESTIONS
1. What is the problem in the case ?
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2. Indicate the individual, managerial and organisational causes that have led to the problem.
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3. How could this problem have been avoided ? How would you explain Patel`s behaviour ?
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4. Discuss the alternatives now available to Parikh and Amin. Discuss the consequences of these alternatives for the organisation.
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