What Were Brooks’ Assumptions About Kravitz’s Abilities, Attitudes and Motivations? on What Were These Assumptions Based?

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Motivations: Find him a job elsewhere in the company.

- What would Brooks and Kravitz have had to do differently to result in a more effective working relationship?

What Kravitz could have done:

Kravitz could have delegated the appropriate amount of jobs to each employee and she should speak out her opinions and suggestions to Chuck on the issue of Brooks work load. She should not be scared of Chuck since if she does not tell him the problem it will further affect Brooks’ and her performance making the whole situation worse. Moreover, there should not be any stereotype problems that should occur for instance giving him a different classification of products compared to the other two employees and that actually the classification given to him was something that he is unfamiliar with. She should also work on different types of motivations and incentives for example instead of telling him that she could help him go to the next position all the time she could try to use different ways of incentives like they need to finish their work before deadlines or they will face what kind of consequences instead of spoiling him. Sometimes she should be more rational and decisive instead of caring too much about others feeling and have her own principles.

What Brooks could have done:

He should be more consistent in the standards of his work and be more responsible about things that he is in charge with. He should avoid putting his personal matters with office work together. Furthermore, don’t argue too much or put too much feeling towards something he would argue about and try to be more flexible and find alternatives towards the things he doesn’t like. He should also be more honest, approachable, communicative about his thoughts and feelings which could allow Kravitz to keep up with all his opinions and thoughts about the situation. Aside from that he should also appreciate the hard work that Kravitz have done for him and try to accept the help she is giving and try to work on it together despite the amount of workload.

They will reach a consensus, if they complete the following matters.

They both should be communicative between each other, being more open and effectively expressing and clearly know what are each of their stands and try to solve the conflict. Brooks on his part should not have expressed his displeasure so openly about joining Kravitz’s team. On Kravitz’s part, it was possible that Brooks had been facing some personal problem and she should have given it a thought. Furthermore, Kravitz could give proper feedback, recognition and thoughts towards her feelings about Brooks’ performance. She should have hastened Chuck, Director of Strategic marketing, to recognize and appreciate Brook’s work on environmental projects. Next giving each and every member proper allocation of task and whether task given is something they are comfortable in. Brooks needed to come out of his disappointment with the earlier project and should have focused on task at hand since it would determine both his and Kravitz’s faith.

Lastly, we strongly recommend Brooks to be provided with trainings on teamwork cause Kravitz had a difficult time communicating with him and his lack of commitment are some serious problems. As for Jane Kravitz and Chuck Taylor, they seemed to be lacking effective managerial and leadership skills, they should know what are the potential of each of the employees and being fair by giving the appropriate amount of work to each employee is important. They could also suggest on a different type of company culture if the current culture they have is causing the employees to be too comfortable and find other alternatives.