The Case of the Snarled Parking Lot

Series: Case Study Series

Duration: 0:22:00

Creator: CRM/McGraw-Hill Films

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: As the web of tangled management and supervision unfolds, formerly abstract management skills become evident by their absence. Learn to recognize these four common management traps: The Tangled Priorities Trap, The Snap Decision Trap, The Clouded Communications Trap, and The Puppet Trap., Dramatizes the case study from the book What Every Superior Should Know in which a supervisor's mishandling of a minor parking problem is compounded into a crisis, threatening continued plant operations. Demonstrates, without identification, common management errors in setting priorities, communication, organizational dynamics, and decision-making. Concludes open-endedly with no solution for the hapless manager's situation.

Complete Record: , As the web of tangled management and supervision unfolds, formerly abstract management skills become evident by their absence. Learn to recognize these four common management traps: The Tangled Priorities Trap, The Snap Decision Trap, The Clouded Communications Trap, and The Puppet Trap., Dramatizes the case study from the book What Every Superior Should Know in which a supervisor's mishandling of a minor parking problem is compounded into a crisis, threatening continued plant operations. Demonstrates, without identification, common management errors in setting priorities, communication, organizational dynamics, and decision-making. Concludes open-endedly with no solution for the hapless manager's situation.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.