Emilio Kornau – Case #4
Question #1: How successful has Emilio been over the entire course of his career? What Criteria di you use to measure career success? Award a number grade on a scale of one to ten. Explain your answer
According to research, employees who are anchored in the Technical/Functional competence tend to have a high motivation and a talent to achieve a high level of technical or functional competence. And it is claimed that staffs in this anchor likes being challenged in the specified technical field and from a sense career stability and security could be derived from the perception that the technical and functional competence is valuable and marketable which makes them believe they are competitive in the job market. The anchor of Technical/Functional competence fits well to Emilio Kornau in his early career life in ICL. As mentioned in the case, as an excellent engineer and a hard worker, Emilio Kornau progresse managed to rose higher and higher along the company’s technical career ladder and the position of senior engineer at his 39 in year 1998 as the youngest in the department. During this period, according the description, we can say that Emilio Kornau had achieved an admirable career success in his department and even in the industry.
But things did not go well when there were fundamental changes happened to the U.K. computer industry as the once dominant ICL, the employer of Emilio Kornau ended up with a takeover by Fujitsu. And due the fast changes and skills innovation, Emilio Kornau finally lost the admirable job and become uncompetitive in the job market and become a driver in the end. Again we can see that after the big changes in the UK computer industry, Emilio Kornau became very unsuccessful in his career as he can not even use the technological knowledge that he used to be so proud to have and his later working experiences had been far away from the Technical/Functional competence career. My criteria to measure his success...
