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BUS2202 ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR

1st Term 2024-25 Individual Case Report Writing on Stress Management (15%)

THE COMPANY MAN

Phil worked himself to death, finally and precisely, at 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning. The obituary (report of somebody’s death) didn’t say that, of course. It said that he died of a coronary thrombosis (kind of heart disease). Everyone among his friends knew it instantly. He was a perfect Type A, a workaholic, a classic; they said to each other and shook their heads. No one was really surprised.

Phil was 51 years old and a vice-president. He was, however, one of six vice-presidents, and one of the three who might move to the top spot if the president died or retired. He worked six days a week, five of them until eight or nine at night, during a time when his own company had begun the four-day week for everyone but the executives. He worked like the Important People. Phil had a lot of people working for him, maybe sixty,  and most of them liked him most of the time. Three of them will be seriously considered for his job.

He had no “extracurricular interests”, except monthly golf game. To Phil, it was work. He always ate egg salad sandwiches at his desk. He was overweight by 20 or 25 pounds. He thought it was okay, though, because he didn’t smoke. He was nervous and worked too hard. If he wasn’t at the office, he was worried about it.

He is survived by his wife, Helen, 48 years old, a good woman of no particular marketable skills, who worked in an office before marrying and mothering. She had, according to her daughter, given up trying to compete with his work years ago, when the children were small. A company friend said, “I know how much you will miss him”. And she answered, “I already have” .

His “dearly beloved” child is a hard-working executive in a firm down South. In the day and a half before the funeral, he went around the neighborhood researching his father, asking the neighbors what he was like. They were embarrassed. His second child is a girl, who is 24 and newly married. She lives near her mother and they are close, but whenever she was alone with her father, in a car driving somewhere, they had nothing to say to each other. The youngest is 20, a boy, a high school graduate who has spent the last couple of years, like a lot of his friends, doing enough odd jobs to stay in grass (drugs) and food. He was the one who tried to grab at his father, and tried to mean enough to him to keep the man at home. He was his father’s favourite. Over the last two year, Phil stayed up nights worrying about the boy.

By 5:00 pm, the afternoon of the funeral, the company president had begun, discreetly of course, and with care and taste, to make inquiries about Phil’s replacement from one of the three men. He asked around: “Who’s been working the hardest?”

Questions:

Critically analyze the case and write a report to discuss issues raised in the questions given below:

1. What are the causes of stress to Phil’s life? Give evidence from the case to support your views.

2. What are the consequences of the above stressors to Phil’s professional (work) and personal life?

3. Do you think his colleagues will have the same consequences when faced with similar stressors? Why?

4. What might Phil and his boss have done to manage or alleviate Phil’s stress?

Requirements:

     Students are required to upload a copy to Turnitin on or before 11pm Nov 3, 2024.

    Pay attention to your written English such as grammar, spelling, etc. which will account for 10% of grade on this piece of work.