Strategic Management and the Boiling Frog Phenomenon

Jacqueline Wade

MGT680-1104B-02 U1 DB

Strategic Management and the Boiling Frog Phenomenon

Dr. Kenneth E. Edick

November 7, 2011

When researching the term boiled frog, many different versions of the term were analyzed.

The first article analyzed was a government document that kind of relates to the term boiling frog, but is more explanatory about how the government is trying to sneak up on the American workforce. On July 6, 2011 the United States Government House of Representatives (112th Congress) issued a bill in a first session called H.R. 2411. The "Boiling Frog" called H.R. 2411 govtrack.us (2011) states that every worker in America should be able to voluntarily have a portion of their wages automatically withheld and sent directly to the Treasury Department for paying down the federal debt. If an employee feels compelled and elects to have a portion of their paycheck withheld, the oneness of responsibility is now on the employer to make it happen. This is a costly expense to any organization. If this bill is passed, the bill will result in a host of new IRS regulations, complete with a battery of new penalties for employers' who do not fill out paperwork properly, submit filings on time, or make some other administrative mistakes.

In business, the term boiled frog phenomenon has a close similarity government example. Analyzing all the data found on the internet, established that the boiled frog statement comes from an experiment with frogs. If you put a frog into a pot with room temperature water and turn the heat under the pot up slowly, the frog will not notice that the temperature is changing, and rather than trying to escape, it will die. The same case scenario is happening to employees' too.

Technology has a lot to do with the reason why the boiled frog phenomenon started. The first technology change occurred with the invention of the answering machine, which is a machine that could take messages for us when...