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Question
Alex admires his manager, Susan, and considers her a role model. Susan often speaks about the importance of communication. At the same time, her busy schedule with external clients makes her very unavailable to Alex and other employees. During the rare chance that they are able to speak with her, she seems hurried and answers other calls and text messages. Alex is most likely to develop an attitude that
a. communicating with employees and communicating with clients are equally important.
b. upward communication is valuable to managers.
c. communicating with clients is less important than communicating with employees.
d. internal communication is less important than external communication.
Case 6.1
Martin is managing a production line in a manufacturing plant in the Midwest. Martin has a quality and productivity problem in one part of the manufacturing process. He discovers that his workers aren't sure what to do. When he asks why they didn't ask questions, the universal reply is, "We Midwesterners don't ask questions, we just do."
Martin decides to address this problem by offering recognition rewards for the employee who asks the most job-related questions that lead to process improvements each month. Unfortunately, Martin finds the program doesn't work. When he further questions his workers, he discovers that no one wants to be the first to ask questions. As a group, workers still feel that they should figure it out on their own and not ask questions.
Martin persuades Carmen, a worker everyone else admires, to be the first to ask questions as part of the program. After about a month, several other people begin to submit questions, and soon everyone in the plant is asking questions.
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