Case questions for Thomas Green: Power, Office Politics, and a Career in Crisis (75 points)
1. What are the work styles and personalities of Thomas Green and Frank Davis?
Personality and work style of Thomas Green
* Green is ambitious, (aggressive pursuit of a double promotion to senior market specialist).
* Thomas green is confident and isn’t insecure about being the youngest in this position
And without graduate training
* Thomas Green is a high performing individual. And he is innovative too. Soon after his promotion, when he met Davis, his boss, he was able to come with many new ideas and client responded very positively to these ideas. Another example is one of the market specialists who accompanied Thomas to several meeting during the special software project said that Thomas is very creative and can quickly think of new ideas on his feet.
Personality and work style of Frank Davis
* Frank Davis seems to be direct and to the point
* He is very well adjusted to the bureaucracy at this level of management. He knows exactly how to get things done in the most effective and efficient way, and how to exploit the shortcomings of others in these areas
* Frank Davis is a team player, who went along with McDonald’s hiring of Green .
2. How do the actions of Thomas Green differ from the expectations of Frank Davis?
Green began in his new position much the same way he would have begun in his previous position as an account executive, by going out and speaking with the customers and employees to begin developing relationships. After the first 2 month in the position, Thomas didn’t get a good review from his boss due to his following actions that differed from frank’s expectations
* The first thing, Frank had a problem with, was the fact that Frank could not locate him because he wasn’t keeping his Outlook Calendar updated. Thomas believed that he was doing what needed to be done for the...
