´When Your Colleague Is a Saboteurµ
Submitted to
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Maneewan Chat-uthai
Presented by
Nodtaporn C. 5320212001
Noppadol
5320212003
Jutimaporn J. 5320212005
This report is submitted in a requirement of
BA.610 Human Resources Management and Organization Behavior
When Your Colleague Is a Saboteur
Content
Brief Summary
Part I: Comments
Maggie Craddock
R. Dixon Thayer
Deborah Kolb
Part II: Case Analysis
Bibliography
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Mark Landstad, a newly hired manager who is relatively new to CliffBank's investment banking division, has a teammate, Nicole
Collins, who appears to be a reliable partner whom he feels most comfortable to ask for help. However, when Mark needs her help in finding important information and figures of his predecessor¶s research for his part of a presentation they are doing together, she ignores and acts as if she doe s not know anything about those information. Mark prepares and does presentation slides all week alone in order to come up with the current acquisition strategy of Millhouse. He could not contact Nicole as well because she was at China and could not be reached until Monday morning which is the presentation day. Mark thinks he would ask Ian, a friend who is the head of corporate strategy at Millhouse, for help but he finally stops that idea.
On the presentation day, Mark talks to Nicole again about the M illhouse file but
Nicole replies as if she does not know where the file is. Mark then points out that he sent the slides to her previous night and asks if she could check before presenting. During the meeting, Nicole produces the data to the attendees wi h her analysis. She comes up with the t Millhouse information which is supposed to be in the file Mark is looking for. All questions arise in his mind: why did she have it and