1.0 INTRODUCTION 2 2.0 PROBLEM ISSUES FROM THE CASE STUDY 3
3.0 BARGAINING ZONE 4
3.1Katia
3.2Roger
4.0 S.W.O.T ANALYSIS 6
4.1 Katia
4.2 Roger
5.0 RECOMMENDED STRATEGY 10
6.0 THE BARGAINING ZONE AND NEGOTIATION DANCE 15
7.0 CONCLUSION 17
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Summary of the human resources needs case
Katia was assigned to manage an important and big project while in meantime her organization was experiencing a downsizing. Because of some of the workers or Katia’s colleague has resigned , Katia facing a problems whereby she need an adequate staffs to complete the project on time.
In Katia’s perspectives, she believes that the project can be completed successfully if she had enough resources to run the project. Thus, she planning on to hiring temporary workers or utilizing the workers from another department who already given notice of termination. For other option, Katia’s will need to push her workers to works excessive overtime.
In Roger’s perspectives, Roger was responsible for all the loss caused by the former project manager, Ralph, that originally been assigned to the current project. If the project fail, roger may lose his career and therefore, the current project was the last chance to get things better for everyone. Unfortunately no available resources that can be given to fulfill Katia’s request and Roger try his best to motivate Katia’s to do necessary thing to get the project done.
2.0 PROBLEM ISSUES FROM THE CASE STUDY
From the case study, during the organization experiencing a downsizing of workers, Katia were assigned to manage an important project which has tight schedule and low resources provided. Katia wants to request more resources from her boss, however, roger which is the employer of Katia also facing a problems in terms or providing resources to Katia.
The Main issues here is that the project has a strict deadline which is