How a policy change may affect an employees career

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Case Study (Management) - Tom Merrill

Answer all following questions from above case study.

Question 1. Do you feel the company is justified in the position they have taken with regard to the promotability of Tom Merrill?

Question 2. Should Tom's superior have told him about his rating and the decision about his promotability? Should he have been told sooner?

Question 3. What should Tom do now?

Question 4. Does a company's management have any responsibility to communicate how a policy change may affect an employee's career?

Question 5. To what extent did Tom contribute to his difficulty by not getting a degree by going to evening college during his career with the company?

Question 6. Is the company placing too much emphasis on the value of a college education and by so doing, discriminating against employees like Tom Merrill?

Question 7. Is there a possibility that there may be another reason or not promoting Tom, and his superior may have used his lack of education as a convenient excuse? If so, to what extent should a superior be frank with a subordinate when discussing his career?

Question 8. Can the company justify paying Tom a salary higher than the top of the range for his position and still not promoting him?

Attachment:- Case Study - Tom Merrill.rar

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