Managers Background
ASIAN CASE RESEARCH JOURNAL, VOL. 9, ISSUE 2, 283–297 (2005)
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Autobiography of a Manager
This case was prepared by Doctoral scholar C. Vijayalakshmi, Prof. Satish K. Kalra and Prof. Rajen K. Gupta as a basis for classroom discussion rather than to illustrate effective or ineffective handling of an administration or business situation. Please address all correspondence to: Dr Vijayalakshmi C., Doctoral scholar (OB), Management Development Institute, Mehrauli Road, Sukhrali, Gurgaon – 122001, Inda. E-mail: fpm01viji@gmail.com
I am Raja, a 31-year old alumnus of IIM (Ahmedabad), with nine years of experience in the corporate sector. I am currently employed as a Product Manager in a software MNC. Mr. Raman, my erstwhile boss from ICG, called me up yesterday. He has been appointed as the head of the consultancy firm which I was working for and made me an offer that if I go back, the firm would take me back in a senior position and with a decent salary hike. He wants me to inform him of my decision within a week. Almost simultaneously, I got a SOS mail from Vivek, my boss, asking me to rush immediately to New Delhi as the implementation partners of an important client are having trouble with the product and were not able to handle it. The other consultants, Ajay and Yash have refused to go. I have my performance appraisal meeting scheduled next week with Vivek. I am being shuttled from one crisis to another, fire fighting all the time. I am feeling DRAINED. This was not how life was supposed to be.
MY FAMILY I was born on 12th November 19XX in Chennai. My earliest memories are of happy childhood days in my grandparents’ house in Chennai. As the baby of the family then, the entire family cherished and pampered me. My grandmother, besides having an MA honors in mathematics, was also an accomplished singer in
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Hindustani1 genre and had released several albums. She was partly responsible for our
ACRJ
Autobiography of a Manager
This case was prepared by Doctoral scholar C. Vijayalakshmi, Prof. Satish K. Kalra and Prof. Rajen K. Gupta as a basis for classroom discussion rather than to illustrate effective or ineffective handling of an administration or business situation. Please address all correspondence to: Dr Vijayalakshmi C., Doctoral scholar (OB), Management Development Institute, Mehrauli Road, Sukhrali, Gurgaon – 122001, Inda. E-mail: fpm01viji@gmail.com
I am Raja, a 31-year old alumnus of IIM (Ahmedabad), with nine years of experience in the corporate sector. I am currently employed as a Product Manager in a software MNC. Mr. Raman, my erstwhile boss from ICG, called me up yesterday. He has been appointed as the head of the consultancy firm which I was working for and made me an offer that if I go back, the firm would take me back in a senior position and with a decent salary hike. He wants me to inform him of my decision within a week. Almost simultaneously, I got a SOS mail from Vivek, my boss, asking me to rush immediately to New Delhi as the implementation partners of an important client are having trouble with the product and were not able to handle it. The other consultants, Ajay and Yash have refused to go. I have my performance appraisal meeting scheduled next week with Vivek. I am being shuttled from one crisis to another, fire fighting all the time. I am feeling DRAINED. This was not how life was supposed to be.
MY FAMILY I was born on 12th November 19XX in Chennai. My earliest memories are of happy childhood days in my grandparents’ house in Chennai. As the baby of the family then, the entire family cherished and pampered me. My grandmother, besides having an MA honors in mathematics, was also an accomplished singer in
© 2005 by World Scientific Publishing Co.
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Hindustani1 genre and had released several albums. She was partly responsible for our