This case is about a professional baseball team called the Brooklyn Blue Birds. It was a best team once then it faced a period of almost 10 years without a pennant i.e.it did not win a game for almost 10 years.
A new owner, Trudy Mills, acquired the Blue Birds with an intention to make them world champions again. She rebuilds the team by acquiring big name players and signed a manager, Marty Bellman, who was well known for his winning ways.
The first year after its reestablishment, Blue Birds came in second in the division. The next year began with great expectations. In starting few months of the year, the team performed extremely well and reached at the first place with a record of 20 wins and 7 losses. It was then, when the problems began. Sports column reported the rumors of conflict between players.
One of its star players, Russ Thompson, publicly declared that he wanted to negotiate his contract as Trudy brought in so many players at much higher salaries than his.
The team began to lose matches. Marty decided to make a move and benched both the star players Russ Thompson and Mickey Ponds. According to Marty, both of them were not playing up to their abilities and have been loafing.
Both of the players got annoyed and spoke to Trudy about this. Rudi called up Marty and asked why did he benched Russ and Mickey? She asked Marty to apologize to them and put them back in the starting lineup.
At this Marty angrily replied,”you, hired me to manage the team, and that’s just I’m doing. Keep your nose out of my business. You may own the team, but I manage it, Russ and Mickey will stay benched until I say otherwise.
Assume that Trudy has hired you as a consultant to help her resolve the conflict. Describe the steps that you would take.
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This case is about a professional baseball team called the Brooklyn Blue Birds. It was a best team once then it faced a period of almost 10 years without a pennant i.e.it did not win a game for almost 10 years.
A new owner, Trudy Mills, acquired the Blue Birds with an intention to make them world champions again. She rebuilds the team by acquiring big name players and signed a manager, Marty Bellman, who was well known for his winning ways.
The first year after its reestablishment, Blue Birds came in second in the division. The next year began with great expectations. In starting few months of the year, the team performed extremely well and reached at the first place with a record of 20 wins and 7 losses. It was then, when the problems began. Sports column reported the rumors of conflict between players.
One of its star players, Russ Thompson, publicly declared that he wanted to negotiate his contract as Trudy brought in so many players at much higher salaries than his.
The team began to lose matches. Marty decided to make a move and benched both the star players Russ Thompson and Mickey Ponds. According to Marty, both of them were not playing up to their abilities and have been loafing.
Both of the players got annoyed and spoke to Trudy about this. Rudi called up Marty and asked why did he benched Russ and Mickey? She asked Marty to apologize to them and put them back in the starting lineup.
At this Marty angrily replied,”you, hired me to manage the team, and that’s just I’m doing. Keep your nose out of my business. You may own the team, but I manage it, Russ and Mickey will stay benched until I say otherwise.
Assume that Trudy has hired you as a consultant to help her resolve the conflict. Describe the steps that you would take.