ARCTIC MINING CONSULTANTS
Case Synopsis
Arctic Mining Consultants is a mining company that deals with mineral exploration. In this case study, the project given is staking 15 claims in Eagle Lake, Alaska. The project Manager was Tom Parker, who has a wide experience and specialized knowledge in all nontechnical aspects of mineral exploration. He is a geological field technician and field coordinator for Arctic Mining Consultants. He assigned his previous field assistants John Talbot, Greg Boyce and Brian Millar to help him complete the project. The job required them to stake at least 7 lengths each day in order to be completed on time. However, the whole team has became very tense and agitated, especially Tom Parker, as the deadline was just around the corner and there’s still many to be finished within the limited time. The problem became worse with the way Tom managed and treated his team. The only motivation to the team was the $300 bonuses promised by the company when the job is done on time, otherwise, they might wished to give up already. This happened because working as a field assistant and in long-working hours only giving them low wages, which is considered unreasonable compared to what they have to do. During the eight hard days, everything had actually proved the strengths and weaknesses of each of the team members, including Tom.

Case analysis symptoms
1) What symptom(s) exist in this case to suggest that something has gone wrong? The symptom(s) to suggest are:
a) Depression
In the case we might identified some depression went around especially between Parker and Millar. Depression may be described as feeling sad, blue, unhappy, miserable, or down in the dumps. Parker and Millar express this through a wide variety of moods, such as irritability, anger and sadness. Like Parker, we can see that he was always in an angry mood towards his crew. The