Universal telecom is one of world’s largest telecom networking companies.
This case presents a troubled team in that company.
Team characteristics:
1. Consist of 4 members.
2. In charge of a really important role in the company.
3. Team members are having difficulty getting along and working together.
4. One of the team members having a personality making things difficult for the team.
5. Firing this member is impossible, organizational context making it impossible to hire new member, and there should be at least 4 members in the team to handle the work load.
Metro and enterprise planning is a division of universal telecom company, and its responsible for handling two types of customer accounts in North America:
This division was created to better serve these two customers by:
Integrating data, voice, network, and optional services
This division is running by 3 directors.
Consist of 160 employee and 3 sub-groups.
Name
Warren Merrill
Jack Morgan
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Director of
Service sub-group
Data sub-group
Optimal sub-group
In the past year and half metro and enterprise division was facing a big changes. That was due to the finical difficulties facing universal telecom. Results forcing the division to downsize to avoid bankruptcy.
After 5 rounds of layoff the division goes from 160 employees to 20.
Warren Merrill now is the director of the 20 employees.
Optimal sub-group’s director was fired.
Jack Morgan now becomes a senior engineer and reports to Warren Merrill.
Warren Merrill divided the Metro and enterprise into 2 sub-groups:
This case will talk about the pre-sale subgroup.
The essential role for presale team is:
1. Generating revenues for the company.
2. Call on existing or potential customers to reassess their telecom networking needs.
3. After that team creates a service plan that outlines needs for equipment, software, and service. Team members highly depend on each other to create such plans
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