Draft Version: 1.0 Format: Non Narrative Case: Managing Xerox’s Multinational Development Center & David Fletcher Question#1: David Fletcher has clearly made some mistakes in assembling & managing his initial “team” of analyst (i.e. Stephanie and Brian). Based on what you know from the course material, what would you consider to his most egregious mistakes – and why? “David Fletcher” missed the fundamental elements to factors in building a team. -Missing Focus on fact: What the purpose
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Gary points out the importance of sending the appropriate signals during the initial stages of a team’s creation so that everyone is on the same page (pg. 3). At the time, Fletcher had an opportunity to set the tone and establish cohesion, but by failing to do so he ultimately let the situation get away from him. Fletcher had unknowingly established a single-leader unit (SLU) during his first attempt, as opposed to an effective team. He hired team members to perform certain functions within the
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DAVID FLETCHER - CASE 4 Submitted by – Group 2 [HRM – B 2014-16] Aakash Parihar H14063, Avinash Upadhyay H14087, Ramanjeet Singh Sahai H14105, Shivani Bhatnagar H14114, Somraj Datta H14117, Tushar Prabhakar H14121 Q. Fletcher’s first attempt to build a research tram did not work out as intended. A. What aspects of team design, should he handled differently? B. What should he have done to facilitate the team’s process better? Ans. David Hired a research team , with individuals handling
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virtues and role models that give orientation to human decisions. The supreme aim of moral action thereby is to lead a good and decent life individually as well as in community (Gabriel, 2013, p.98). I chose Love as my ethic because I agree with Fletcher in that it is the most powerful and important force on earth. Love can move mountains, for the better or the worse. Love is the most important force in my life and I believe it is in most peoples’ lives. One of my favorite quotes is “A life without
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Situation ethics was emerged at a time when society and the Church were facing drastic and potential change, J.A.T Robinson and Joseph Fletcher was both commonly associated with this topic. Their theory was a completely different look from the tradition Christian ethics “Christians cannot go on trying to lay down the law”- Fletcher, 1966. Agape- a midway point between legalism and antinomianism. Situation ethics is mostly teleological apart from its principle of love, because in the end result
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‘love thy neighbor as thyself’; therefore, love is the prerogative as it’s the only aspect that is intrinsically good. Many debates have been developed around the argument whether ‘Situation Ethics is always practical’. According to Joseph Fletcher, ‘Situation Ethics is always practical’. The philosopher developed the teleological theory of Situation Ethics according to the teachings of Jesus Christ, a being who lived his life according to how God demands mankind to live. Within The New Testament
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theory which takes a relativist approach by doing the most loving thing according to the situation and the predicted consequence regardless of laws and rules. The theory also focuses on which action will be most loving for the most people. Joseph Fletcher introduced this theory in 1966 when he released his book “Situation Ethics: The New Morality.” He expresses that he wanted to create a middle ground between legalism and antinomianism as he felt people were becoming secular. He wanted to bring Christians
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Situation Ethics as a relativistic and teleological theory can, to a certain extent, work in society. Situation ethics is a theory in which agape love must be reached through the consequence of an action. This theory was developed by Joseph Fletcher. Situation Ethics as a relativistic theory is flexible and practical. It takes into account the situation a person is faced with and can help make decisions in situations where, from a legalistic point of view, all options are wrong. This allows the
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O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumbshows and noise. (Hamlet, 3.2) Most of the poorer audience members, referred to as groundlings, would pay one penny (which was almost an entire day's wage) to stand in front of the stage, while the richer patrons would sit in the covered galleries, paying as much as half a crown
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be found through nature and purpose. Joseph Fletcher, who focused on situation ethics, came to the conclusion that the most loving thing must always be done, as love overwrites anything else in the world. He described situation ethics as a ethical theory based on the single principal of love and people should enter every situation prepared to act in the most loving way. The right thing to do in any given situation is the mist loving thing to do. Fletcher defined love as always being good, love and
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