What to do with Howard?
Week 7- case study #3

Synopsis: Agrigreen, Inc. is a company that manufactures a verity of agricultural fertilizer. With plants located in the western United States and Canada, Agrigreen employees are certified surveyors to make sure the quality and safety of every project is correct. Tad Pierson position at one of Agrigreen plants is a project engineer which he enjoys being. As project engineer Tad is put over the operation of the plant surveying group. Since being there Tad Pierson is becoming more aware of some performance, safety, and conflict issues within the surveyor group. These issues are beginning to escalate in and is causing Tad to become worried and concern in regards to the safety of the employees, the issues are also interfering with the production schedules leaving Tad Pierson to consider possible actions that he may need to take to resolve the issue within the organization.

After receiving his surveyor’s certificate from the local civil technologies college, Howard Lineberry had gone to work for the State Highway Department as a chainman but the job hadn’t paid him very well So, when a job for a lead surveyor had opened up at Agrigreen eighteen years ago, Lineberry had been glad to get it. Howard Lineberry became a lead surveyor and has been employed with Agrigreen for eighteen years. Over the years working at Agrigreen he has been supervised by five different managers, and a total of three surveyor helpers. Over the years of working there Howard’s work began causing multiple safety and production issues for others at the job. Because of His errors it began causing conflicts with the engineering staff, his managers, and pretty much everyone else Howard worked with.