Martha Rinaldi
Introduction
Martha Rinaldi, an enthusiastic and over-ambitious Marketing MBA graduate, accepted position at Potomac Waters over Deep Dive Pizza. She made this after carefully analyzing both the organizations (Exhibit 1) and then choosing her career growth and development over the monetary benefits. An intelligent career decision turned out to be a struggle as her relations worsened with her teammate and manager leading towards the decision of whether to stay or to switch internally or accept the standing offer at a smaller company.
Problems as seen by Martha
On Job Learning & Training issue: Her basic motive in joining Potomac Waters was that she will be provided with the extensive learning and trainings in marketing field. Since the company was aiming towards national branding, it had superior marketing department; and Martha hoped to work in a challenging environment with exciting opportunities. Unfortunately, things didn’t turn out in her department as expected. Neither her peer nor her boss helped her out with the learning. In fact, they were too busy to guide her. She was expected to learn on her own.
Work Quality Issue: With the appreciation and job offer she got in return of her contributions at Deep Dive Pizza during summer internship; Martha had risen in her sense of self-actualization and self-esteem. Also, with her excellent analytical and problem solving skills she had developed a high need for achievement. When she joined Potomac, she expected similar challenging and complex work right away so she could start contributing. But with the menial tasks assigned to her by Jamie, she was getting impatient and frustrated.
Poor Relations with Jamie Vaughn: She was having the worst time with Jamie. They often had clashes regarding the work issue. Martha felt that Jamie was burdening her and assigning her the basic tasks which weren’t contributing any value to her knowledge. She felt she had much to offer.
Poor Relations with Natalie Follet: She had
Martha Rinaldi, an enthusiastic and over-ambitious Marketing MBA graduate, accepted position at Potomac Waters over Deep Dive Pizza. She made this after carefully analyzing both the organizations (Exhibit 1) and then choosing her career growth and development over the monetary benefits. An intelligent career decision turned out to be a struggle as her relations worsened with her teammate and manager leading towards the decision of whether to stay or to switch internally or accept the standing offer at a smaller company.
Problems as seen by Martha
On Job Learning & Training issue: Her basic motive in joining Potomac Waters was that she will be provided with the extensive learning and trainings in marketing field. Since the company was aiming towards national branding, it had superior marketing department; and Martha hoped to work in a challenging environment with exciting opportunities. Unfortunately, things didn’t turn out in her department as expected. Neither her peer nor her boss helped her out with the learning. In fact, they were too busy to guide her. She was expected to learn on her own.
Work Quality Issue: With the appreciation and job offer she got in return of her contributions at Deep Dive Pizza during summer internship; Martha had risen in her sense of self-actualization and self-esteem. Also, with her excellent analytical and problem solving skills she had developed a high need for achievement. When she joined Potomac, she expected similar challenging and complex work right away so she could start contributing. But with the menial tasks assigned to her by Jamie, she was getting impatient and frustrated.
Poor Relations with Jamie Vaughn: She was having the worst time with Jamie. They often had clashes regarding the work issue. Martha felt that Jamie was burdening her and assigning her the basic tasks which weren’t contributing any value to her knowledge. She felt she had much to offer.
Poor Relations with Natalie Follet: She had