Question

Alice loves to hire new people. As manager of the Policy and Research department of the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration, she sees it as a great responsibility to aggressively pursue and hire the best people. She has already experienced the challenges of hiring the wrong person. She knows a bad personality match could undermine the culture she has worked so hard to build. Alice plans to do everything in her power to never repeat the mistake of a bad hire again.

This latest hire, however, is proving to be a bigger challenge than she had expected. The problem is that the position requires a good deal of specialized knowledge. Alice needs a statistical analyst who is also intimately familiar with a wide variety of government legislation, policies and programs. The pool of candidates with this knowledge is extremely small. Truthfully, she has interviewed only one person with the skills and knowledge that she needs.

Jana had interviewed two weeks ago. She knew the legislation better than anyone Alice has ever met. Every question Alice asked, Jana answered. What an asset Jana would be to the department. The dilemma is that Jana seems to be extremely extroverted, needing and wanting a lot of social involvement. This job would not offer that opportunity. Even worse, Mike, the main person with whom Jana would be working, is an extreme introvert. He rarely speaks to anyone and prefers that people speak to him as little as possible. Alice can see nothing but problems between these two employees.

Alice does not know what to do. She values Mike a great deal and does not want to do anything to make him unhappy in his job. But she desperately needs someone in this vacant position. She has been depending on everyone to pitch in and cover the workload for weeks now. She knows that has to stop. Yet, is it fair to bring in someone she feels sure would be unhappy in the job and would ultimately quit? She may even end up losing both Jana and Mike. She has no idea what is the right thing to do.

Questions

1. Who are the stakeholders affected by Alice’s decisions?  

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2. How much importance should Alice place on Mike’s needs and wants?

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3. Using rule, virtue, right, and justice theories, evaluate Alice’s decision alternatives.

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Answer 1

a) ans Alice and all the employees workload who had to pitch in to cover the workload as if she did not hire Jane then everybody's workload would continue to be high. Further, if Jane got hired then according Alice observation of Jane being an extrovert but Mike with whom Jane would be working being an introvert . This would lead to both Jane and Mike getting affected.

b) ans .

Importance given to the current employee is high as person who is to be hired is being chosen with personality that suits Mike. Alice is giving great importance to Mike as she is not willing to hire Jane although she knew that her organization is much in need of Jane to work smoothly. But since she is able to see through thier different personalities that they won't match with each she is confused of hiring as she did not want to loose Mike.

c) ans.

According to me using rule , righ, virtue and justice theory the alternative of Alice decision would be first look for more candidate with screening, and continuing the process till interview. As more suitable people for the job should be considered before taking decision about Jane . But even after interviewing other eligible people ,Alice feels only Jane have all the suitable skills then she should be hired as there also exist a great possibility that introvert and extrovert could go together a long way. Also, even they did not go well with each other then also Jane won't effect the culture of the organisation much instead would only improve by reducing the work load. Hence , she would be welcomed by current employees with open arms . But if Alice feels that hiring Jane could lead to Mike also leaving the job won't be justice to other employment who are bearing the burden.