9. Statement of problem
Bierman is losing control of his project
concerning the process schedule, the
budget and by keeping bad
relationships between the workforce
and the american staff.The heart of
the problem is the way the project is
run especially how the siesta issue is
handled.
10. Options
# 1 Instaure primes/ sanctions
-Motivation
-Catches up the
time schedule
-Additional costs
-Risk of a sloppy
work
11. Options
# 2 Change the workers mind by educating
them and organizing meetings
-More
communication
and trust
Free
-John closer to the
workforce
-Involves additional
availability
-John can’t learn
spanish in a month
12. Options
#3 Bierman out of the office to manage
-Help Perkins to
motivate the
workers
-Reassure
everybody
-Change in
Bierman’s working
habits
13. Options
#4 Reorganize the daily schedule: Multiple
working groups/Volunteers for siesta work
-Changes the
working habits
-More workers may
needed
-No interruption
-Possibility to earn
more money
-We keep the siesta
14. Options
#5 Fire john
-Better quality of
supervision
-Workers will
appreciate
-A bilingual engineer
has to be found
-He needs time to get
used to the project
-Perkins loses his job