Reference no: EM133166581

Analyze the following situations and answer the questions carefully.

1. As the current owner of Happy Pan, a neighborhood bakery, you are deciding whether to expand the business to a cafe. However, your parents, who started the business, are advising you that it is not ideal as it has not been their original intention. This poses a dilemma. Should you listen to them out of respect or should you continue with your sound business plan? Fitial piety makes it difficult to proceed with your idea.

2. Your current panadero (baker) tells you that you cannot come in yet again because he has to take care of his mother who is sick. He is compelled to prioritize his mother over work. Society dictates that he should take care of his mother, but how do you deal with his frequent absenteeism.

3. You want to find a second panadero. Your aunt tells you her son has just finished his vocational course in carpentry. Will you hire your cousin who does not know anything about baking bread? Should you allow your business to practice nepotism?

4. How do you tell your cousin that you will not hire him without bringing shame to himself and his family and ultimately, to your family?

5. Happy Pan supplies special biscuit buns to a large restaurant in your neighborhood. A verbal order of 1,000 buns was placed for delivery today but the salesperson in charge forgot to have the order produced. How do you handle this mistake? Should you deny the mistake your company has made to save face? As a leader, do you disregard wrongdoings to save an employee's amor propio? How should you manage people?