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Case Study 10.3: Regulating Love at the Office
The office has become a hotbed of romance. In one survey, 60%
of employees surveyed reported that they had participated in an
office romance during their careers and 64% said they would do
so again. And the percentage of workplace romances is likely to
climb as younger workers (ages 25 to 34) put in more hours at
work. As one human resource writer notes:
Traditional places like church, family events, and leisure time
don’t present the same pool of candidates as they did in earlier
times. The workplace provides a preselected pool of people who
share at least one important area of common ground. People
who work together also tend to live within a reasonable dating
distance, and they see each other on a daily basis.1
Office romances can pose a number of problems, including a
loss of productivity, public displays of affection, gossip,
damage to the professional image of the organization, charges
of favoritism, and affairs in cases where romantic partners
already have spouses or significant others. Serious issues arise
when superiors and subordinates date and then break up. The
subordinate (often a young female assistant) may claim that she
was sexually harassed because she was pressured into having
sex to keep her job or that her supervisor (often an older male
executive) retaliated when the relationship ended.
The nation was reminded of the dangers of superior–subordinate
relationships when former late-night talk show host David
Letterman admitted that he’d had a series of sexual
relationships with female writers and staffers at his production
company. Letterman went public with his affairs after a CBS
producer who dated his long-term girlfriend, Stephanie Birkett,
tried to extort money from the entertainer in return for keeping
silent about his sexual activities. While Letterman’s
relationships were consensual, it appeared as if the women he
dated received special benefits. For example, Birkitt was
featured in broadcast segments even though she did not seem to

be particularly talented.
Human resource departments are taking note of the dangers of
office romances. The number of companies developing written
policies to address office romances rose from 20% to 42% over
an eight-year period, according to the Society of Human
Resource Management. And the policies grew stricter. Almost
all the firms surveyed by SHRM forbid romantic relationships
between superiors and subordinates; one-third forbid
relationships between those reporting to the same supervisor or
with a client or customer; 10% don’t allow romances between
their employees and employees of competitors. Punishments
range from minimal (relationship counseling and department
transfers) to severe (suspension and termination). Executives at
the American Red Cross, the World Bank, Walmart, Boeing, and
the Harvard Business Review lost their jobs for having
relationships with subordinates.
Not everyone is convinced that restrictions on dating are
justified or ethical. Canadian business professor Colin Boyd
believes these policies invade employee privacy and restrict
their right to associate with others. The costs to employees
outweigh any benefits to the company. He points out that the
number of romance-related sexual harassment claims (14,200 in
one recent year) is small compared with the total number of
work relationships. Conflict-of-interest policies can deal with
those issues that do arise when a few couples misbehave.
Further, workplace romances benefit participants, with 44%
leading to marriage and 23% to long-term relationships.
(Michelle and Barack Obama met at work, for instance, and she
was his supervisor.) This high relational success rate may be
due in part to the fact that parties get to know each other
gradually over a period of years. In addition, Boyd notes that
spouses who work together are much less likely to divorce.
Because office romances are low risk/high reward, Boyd urges
organizations to promote rather than restrict romance. He points
to Southwest Airlines, AT&T, and Ben & Jerry’s as examples of
successful companies that actively encourage employee

marriage and long term relationships.
Discussion Probes
1. What has been your experience as an observer of workplace
romances? What impact have they had on other employees and
the organization?
2. Should all romantic relationships between supervisors and
subordinates be banned? Should romantic partners be able to
report to the same supervisor?
3. If you were asked to develop an office romance policy, what
would you include in it?
4. Do strict romance policies violate employee privacy,
autonomy and the right to associate with others? Are they
unfair?
5. Do the benefits of restricting office romances outweigh the
costs?
6. Should office romances be promoted instead of restricted?
Naresh Kumar Kudithi
[email protected]
+1(469)-
588-1038
Plano, Texas
JAVA/J2EE/SQL/PL/SQL Developer
_____________________________________________________
_____________________________________
Summary:
· 8+ years of IT industry experience encompassing a wide range
of skill sets and roles.
· Extensive experience with analysis, design, development,

customization and implementation of software applications.
· Proficient in analyzing and translating business requirements
to technical requirements and architecture and preparing
technical documents.
· Having strong IT experience and worked on many sampling
technologies during my Masters.
· Proficiency in developing Web applications, Modern UI
Development and Server-Side Development using Core Java,
JDBC, JNDI, Struts, Spring (Core, MVC, JDBC, ORM),
Hibernate, AJAX, JSP, XML, Bootstrap, AngularJS,JavaScript,
CSS3, HTML5, jQuery, Node.JS, JSON, Oracle, MySQL and
various design patterns.
· Performed various tasks using Docker Environment like
Building an image for the application and run in container,
scaling up the application, distributing the app across the
cluster.
· Extensive knowledge in developing applications in a single
page (SPAs) using various JavaScript frameworks like Angular
JS and Bootstrap.
· Experience in utilizing Java/J2EE technologies such as JSP,
Servlets, JDBC, etc. and building the applications using MVC
Architecture design pattern.
· Experience in deploying applications using application servers
and web servers like ApacheTomcat8, Web Logic and Web
Sphere.
· Worked on various modules of Spring Core, MVC, DAO and
JDBC to make my application flexible and Loosely coupled.
· Worked on the spring boot module as well that reduces the
development time rapidly.

· Good at data processing or reading and parsing the XML and
JSON data.
· Competence in using Java IDE tools of Eclipse, Net Beans,
My Eclipse and RAD
· Extensive experience with AngularJS, creating components,
custom directives, decorators, and services to interface with
both restful and legacy network services also DOM
applications.
· Extensive experience on modern front-end template
frameworks for JavaScript including Bootstrap, jQuery,
AngularJS , Angular 7 etc.
· Worked on the SOAP Web services using AXIS 1 to
communicate between the applications.
· Good in writing the SQL Queries includes joins, group by
etc..,. Also worked on PL/SQL procedures, functions, cursors,
sequences, indexes, triggers and exceptions.
· Experiences in different debugging tools like Firebug, Chrome
inspect and IE developer for Load test, browser compatibility
and page optimizations.
· Strong database skills, object-oriented programming and
development knowledge in SDLC and Agile (SCRUM)
methodologies.
· Received IBM Delivery Excellence award and Deep Skill
Adder Award for the Qualitative deliverables.
· Effective communication skills, interpersonal skills: self-
motivated, quick learner and a team player.
· Developed, enhancement and maintained the build,
deployment and configurations for continuous integration,
automate regression and acceptance testing.

· Good problem solving and analytical skills. Highly motivated
professional, Team Player with ability to effectively work with
and communicate with team.
· Ability to rapidly learn new concepts and methodologies.
· Proven ability to work in team environment as well as
independently.
Education:
Master's in Computer Science
Bachelor's in Information Technology
Technical Skills:
Languages
Core Java expertise, SQL, PL/SQL, C, C++, .Net
Java Technologies
JSP, JDBC, Java Beans, Restful, SOAP, JSTL, servlets, custom
tag libraries
J2EE Frameworks
Struts 2.x, Spring IOC/JDBC/MVC/ORM/Boot, Spring Cloud,
Hibernate3.0, IBATIS, Apache wicket and Spring Boot
Web Technologies
HTML5, CSS3, XML, JavaScript, AJAX, jQuery, Angular JS,
Angular 7, Bootstrap 3.0, XML/XSL/XSLT, SAX, DOM, SAML
Application Server
WebSphere, WebLogic
Web Server
Apache Tomcat 8.0

IDE's
Eclipse, RAD
Databases
Oracle 10g/9i/8i/7.x, SQL Server, DB2, Derby, DB2, Mango
DB, PostgreSQL
Version Control Tools
CVS, SVN, GIT
Build Tools
Ant, Maven
J2EE Design Patterns
Front Controller, Factory Pattern, DAO, Singleton pattern
Case Tools
UML, OOAD
Operating Systems
Windows 8/7/XP, MS-DOS, UNIX
Other Tools
AWS, AZURE Remedy 5.1/7.5, JIRA, CI/CD pipeline, Clear
Quest, Build Forge, Rational Application Developer, TOAD,
SQL*Plus, PL/SQL Developer, Rational Portfolio Manager,
IBM MQ Series, Web Logic workshop 10, Visual Studio
2008/2010/2012, JDeveloper 12, SQL Management Studio 2012,
Eclipse, VPN, Putty, WinSCP, UC4, Edit plus, OAuth SSO
Work Experience:
Employer: Leading Torch LLC
Client: Toyota Motors North America
Role: JAVA Developer
Project Name: Sales Margin application and ICAT (DSA
Module)
Project Location: Dallas, Texas, USA

Duration: Feb 11th, 2019 to present
The Sales Margin application initiative is part of a more
significant effort called "Mainframe De-risk." TMNA
mainframe has many legacy applications that need to be
modernized, one of such is DAP/CAP Payments. DAP/CAP is a
generic name used to refer to many different "retail-based
margin payments," such as DAP, CAP, MCB, LDS, LDMC,
SEF, LTS, etc. The primary objective of this project is to re-
platform the DAP/CAP Payments system, and in the process
modernize it with cloud technologies, improve business process,
retire technical debt and improve dealer satisfaction by paying
them timely.
In Margin Release, this project is attempting to retire the
following margins:
· DAP – Dealer Allowance Program
· CAP – Covenant Allowance Program
· LDS – Lexus Delivery Specialist
· MCB – Marketing Covenant Bonus
· LDMC – Lexus Dealer Margin Covenant
· LTS – Lexus Technology Specialist
· SEF – Service Efficiency
· WFR – Wholesale Financial Reserve
· HB – Dealer Holdback
Responsibilities:
· Involved with the business team to identify, analyze functional

and non-functional requirements for design and develop of
technical solutions.
· Designed and Developed the user interface components for the
overall application using the web technologies like HTML, CSS,
Bootstrap, Angular 7.
· Created the Azure Functions using JAVA that receives the
inputs from the service calls and performs the database
interactions.
· Fixed the incidents raised on the screens reported by the
testing team.
· Involved in code maintainability, reusability and testability.
· Monitored the application efficiencies to identify the means of
enhancing the performance.
· Involved in the deployment of the Sales Margin application on
the Azure platform for both UI and Azure functions.
· Worked with application management team to provide support
and resolve the production issues.
Environment: HTML 5, Bootstrap 4, Angular 7, CSS 3, Java 8,
Spring Boot and Microsoft AZURE.
In the ICAT, Dealer Stock Accrual (DSA)- Dealer stock
represents the number of wholesaled units not yet retailed to
customers as of the end of the calendar month. The application
supports the business users to set up the incentives for both
national and regional level.
It includes various tasks like creation of programs, searching
for a specific program and Review & Approve the program. This
application reduces lot of manual process, eliminates the
inconsistencies and mainly the automatic calculation and
payment of incentives to Dealers or Regions.
Dealer Stock Final Pay - The programs in which incentives in
the form of cash are offered to dealers based on the number of
vehicles belonging to specific vehicle configuration in their
inventory
Responsibilities:
· Designed and Implemented iCAT UI components using the

web technologies like HTML, CSS, bootstrap, AngularJS.
· Completely designed and developed new features like Dealer
Stock Accrual Module in iCAT.
· Participated in the unit testing throughout the application and
developed enhancements to the system.
· Worked on the code quality, reusability and testability.
· Closely work with business during the User Acceptance
Testing to identify and fix the issues raised.
· Involved in the deployment of the iCAT on Azure App
Service.
· After deployment during the hyper care time, worked with
support team to identify and resolve the issues.
Environment: HTML 5, Bootstrap 4, CSS 3, AngularJS, Java 8,
Spring Boot and Microsoft AZURE.
Work Experience:
Employer: Miracle Software Systems
Client: CapitalOne
Project Name: Rules Engine Application
Project Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Duration: Aug 2018 to Jan 10th, 2019
Project Description:
CapitalOne is currently working with SONY apart from Cabela
and Basspro. Sony comes up with different credit policy intent
documents. Each policy intent has certain rules which are

needing to be developed using drools Framework. These policy
intents are classified into several types like insufficient bureau,
pre-bureau and post bureau for Sony all channels or global all
channels.
Rules engine is the main application which reads all these rules
using the jar file and decides to Approve/Decline based on the
request. The request and response types are using JSON.
Responsibilities:
· Understanding the codebase, existing scripts and preparing
documents.
· Understanding the scenarios of rerouting to different flows
like AMP or Capstone systems.
· Gone through the database E-R diagram, Schemas and the
data.
· Analyzing and writing the rules based on the credit policy
intent.
· Developed feature file to validate these rules using cucumber
Gherkin frameworks.
· Worked on few issues related to path while it is taking the
related drl file to validate.
· Designed the model bean classes by identifying the attributes
needed to develop the rules.
· Developed the utility functions and validation functions which
are reused throughout the rules.
· Wrote few Docker script files to build the API’s that runs in

the container.
· Used GIT commands on the regular basis to merge the Code in
the branch.
Environment: Java, Spring, Spring Boot, IntelliJ, Drools,
Docker, Cucumber Gherkin Framework, GitHub, GIT
Employer: Miracle Software Systems
Client: Internal
Project Name: Hilmor
Project Location: Novi, Michigan USA
Duration: Jun 2018 to Aug 2018
Hilmor application is used by the various vendors to create the
tools that are step ahead which saves the customer time and
frustration. It has various features like Product registration,
locate a distributor, product catalog, request a catalog, write a
product review and buy a product.
Responsibilities:
· Worked with the team to understand the application and fixed
the defects.
· Implemented on the Google maps API to locate the store

distributor functionality
· Created the project document that contains the entire details
about the functionality and description of the application.
· Worked on the enhancements related to the content and
modifications on the view page.
Environment: JavaScript, PHP and IIS server,
Concentrix, Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA
Client: MAZDA
Project Name: MAZDA Customer Engage Portal (MCE Portal)
Project Location: Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA
Duration: Feb 2017 to May-2018
Mazda Customer Engage(MCE) Portal is used to provide a
common solution to support Sales, Service, Wholesale, Digital
and Recall efforts. The objective of MCE is to direct the dealers
to one location for better user experience and will be able to
access all Service, Sales, Wholesale, Digital and Recall efforts
via MXConnect or SSO Login (Single Sign On). So, Mazda
dealers are the end users of this application. Also worked on the
payment engine, where a dealer can select a package inside a
program to own it. The vision for this new payment engine
solution is to implement a single Payments application that

aligns to the Service Landscape, can process any Payment on a
single platform, irrespective of instrument type, value of
payment, channel or transaction type and which is implemented
on a modern technology infrastructure
Responsibilities:
· Involved in the business of Mazda Customer Engage portal
and understand the requirement of the customer.
· Worked on the critical areas of the applications like
Impersonation functionality, Internal Login page.
· Maintenance of the internal Asset Management tool which is
especially designed to manage the images that are used in the
application.
· Fixed the defects that are not only raised on the areas that
worked but also on the entire application.
· Designed the internal Login page using the bootstrap 4 and
performed validations using the JavaScript.
· Created a java bean class by using all the XML’s that are
related to service and sales which is typically called as Java
marshalling and unmarshalling.
· Prepared a high-level document on the entire Mazda Customer
Engage Portal that includes both functional and technical
details.
· Worked on the Restful API web services while displaying the
data on the pages.
· Used JIRA tool to track the issues and bugs. Maintained each
defect in different stages like Open Issue, InProgress Issue,

Resolved Issue, Reopened Issue and Closed Issue.
Environment: Java, JSP, Servlets, HTML, CSS, JavaScript,
Windows, Log4J, Restful API, JavaScript, SQL, PL/SQL,
Apache Tomcat 8.0, JIRA
IBM (Global Business
Solution
s) PVT Ltd, Bangalore, India
Feb 2015 to June-2016
Client: Ericsson
Role: Application Developer
Project Name: Ericsson Local Applications

Project Location: Bangalore, India
Project Description: Ericsson Local Applications are used by
the employees within the Ericsson. It includes a variety of 8
different applications. To maintain customer purchase orders
(which is the first automated tool introduced and is used in
USA, SPAIN and France). To manage the Initial tuning tracker
performance data (by using this customer can get the reports
and identify the network performance).
Have also designed applications to manage the benefits and
Events to the employees and their family, which includes the
payroll, bonus, etc.
Responsibilities:
· Quickly learnt the Apache Wicket skills and IBATIS frame
work and replaced the senior critical resource in the project.
· Received an opportunity to work from designing phase,
developing the functionality, deployment and testing.
· Developed new pages implementation and integrated without
any effect of existing system

· Solved critical issues within the timeline and got huge
appreciations from my onsite team in Spain
· Took ownership among almost all the applications and
understood the business involved in it.
· Used the Angular JS after getting the response from the server
in the JSON format and painted on the screen.
· Used the Angular JS tags inside the HTML page to make the
page more effectively and to have great user interface.
· Worked on the JQuery to do validations on the client side.
Implemented validations which reduces the load on the server.
· Worked on deployment on the Tomcat server on various
Environments like development, Test and Production Server.
· For every Web application we have a Mass Uploader
application which is a standalone JAVA application by using
which client can upload an Excel sheet of data into the
database.
· Created a SWING Window to handle the Uploaders which
takes Excel sheet of data as input and uploads the data into the

Database which is same for web application also.
· Worked on Knowledge Transfer on these applications while
migration it to the other vendors.
· Worked on SQL/PL/SQL related skills to efficiently store the
data into the database.
· Created a class named BasicDataSource which improves the
performance while handling many connections to the database.
· Handled the requests for production issues and the high
priority tickets .
· Extensively worked Various PL/SQL procedures and functions
that are used in the application.
· Used SVN to maintain the versions of the code.
Environment: Java, J2EE, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Windows,
DB2, Log4J, Angular, Apache wicket, IBATIS, jQuery, SQL,
PL/SQL
, Apache Tomcat 8.0
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Bangalore, India

Mar-2014 to Jan-2015
Client: TCS Internal
Role: Application Developer
Project Name: Wealth Management Product
Project Description: Wealth management product is TCS
Internal Product which is used by many banks out of which
bank of YAHAV is one. It is an Enterprise banking application
used by the agents of the bank. This Application includes
business like registering an asset and capturing the worth of it,

collecting all the assets of a customer into a portfolio. It also
includes a variety of modules like sales admin, New Investment
on business etc.
Responsibilities:
· Took ownership on the portfolio module and delivered with no
defects.
· Worked on the development phase from scratch and
understood end-to-end process of the project.
· Used JSP technology to design the web pages
· Worked on Implementation of the pages by using JSP and then
Struts 2.0 to handle the requests.
· Also, involved in various other modules while fixing the
defects in the final phase of the project.
· Learnt how to integrate TCS Extranet web services into the
pages. TCS used its own web services while working with
Banking. Have designed those by using internal tool of TCS
Master Craft Tool.
· Performed validation support for the project in 2 levels

namely at the client side by using JQuery and at the controller
level by using Struts 2.0.
· Worked collaboratively with back office team whose job is
used to work exclusively on the Extranet services and
understand each service before working on it.
· Developed a single page, mobile-first, cross device/ cross-
browser web application utilizing AngularJS, JavaScript API.
· Worked extensively on AngularJS in creating Controllers,
Making AJAX calls using $http, $resource and JSON parse.
· Involved in VIEW and CONTROLLER section of MVC pattern
for project which includes HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery
and AJAX which were used for UI development.
· Collaborate with clients, product management as well as UI
team.
· Head development inclusive to agile team to execute key User
Interface aspects and Collect requirements for user interface
research.
· Plan and execute usability evaluation along with testing across

UI development stages.
· Implemented Hibernate ORM tool integration with Spring
MVC to interact with back end persistence system (SQL).
· Followed Spring MVC pattern for the project with
Servlets/JSP and Hibernate.
· Configured Hibernate mapping files and configuration files to
connect with the database.
· Designed Persistent Hibernate ORM classes.
Environment: JSP, AngularJS, Bootstrap, Angular UI, Spring
boot, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, AJAX, Hibernate, Spring MVC,
WebLogic, SQL, PL/SQL
Client: Skandia
April-2012 to Dec-2013

Role: Programmer Analyst
Project Name: Royal bank of Skandia
Project Description: Royal bank of Skandia belongs to old
mutual group of Scotland. The internal agents of Bank are using
this product. Skandia has a fresh view of investments to help
our customers around the world achieve their goals. Our
innovative long-term saving and investment solutions enable
our customers to respond quickly to life and market changes,
and plan.
Responsibilities:
Worked from the scratch from user interface designing to the
integrating web services on to the pages and testing of it.
· Introduced AJAX on to my project which improved the time to

interact with the application.
· Worked with Alfresco server for the first time and gave a
demo to the Onsite team. Alfresco server is used for
Internationalization in the application. It manages all the
content appeared on the application with all the customers’ data
like the name, country he/she belongs to. This server will take
the input from the application and identifies the language based
on the customer’s data.
· Also, helped fresher’s in understanding the application by
giving knowledge transfer.
· As it was, my first real project experience, I handled the
others work assigned and took responsibility to deal without
pressure.
· Developed an application for security control module using
Bootstrap, HTML, CSS, JavaScript. Used and worked on
JQuery for UI and implemented AJAX calls using JSON.
· Worked on Struts and spring ORM framework to handle the
request from clients and to connect to database to save it.
· Used JSP top design the web pages and then JQuery and

Angular JS to efficiently handle the Validations and to have
very dynamic user response page.
· Involved in bug fixing and enhancements on change request.
· Used Log4J for logging and analyzing system performance and
flow, involved in code refactoring and bug fixing and used SVN
as the Version Control Tool.
Environment: JSP, Java, J2EE, Struts2, Spring MVC, jQuery,
Bootstrap, Web logic, JSP/Servlets, XML, SQL, PL/SQL
TCS ILP (Initial Learning Program) Training
Dec 2011 to Mar-2012
Location: Trivandrum, India
Description: TCS ILP is the initial learning program which is of
3 months given to all the freshers on various technologies
includes mainframes, JAVA, dot net, SQL etc.. . I have
undergone JAVA & SQL training. It also includes English
communication skills program. During training we have
undergone various assignments and tests after every topic.

Finally, we must show a mini project from the scratch that
includes requirements gathering, analysis diagrams like UML,
Development and Testing.
We also must face the Viva by the Technical Leads to complete
the successful training.
ACADEMIC PROJECTS:
Design of Peer-to-peer Car Rental Database, Frostburg State
University
Designed Entity-Relationship (ER) Model for peer-to-peer Car
Rental database.
Create Tables, insert data and execute complex queries by using
join conditions.
Used PL/SQL to create views, sequences, indexes, Triggers,
cursors, procedures, functions
Did Normalizations for the all the tables which makes data
correct and manage it easily.
Design and Develop Sample Library Management Application

using Ruby on Rails, Frostburg State University
Developed a system which automates all the manual process
operations done by a Library like managing the current
students, issuing books, renewal of books, adding books ad
deletions of books which are no longer available in the Library.
ACADEMIC ASSIGNMENTS:
· Created pages using PHP and Connected to MySQL Database
using XAMP Software
· Created a page which can identify the currently running
browsers information and displays the Geo Location
Information including the map.
· Demonstrated the android application and connected to the
internal SQLite Database
· Worked on the chatting application using MEAN stack
software and explained about how to use these technologies
together.
· Demonstrated the AWS cloud environment and deployed a
page and tested using the URL generated by the AWS.
YouTube Links:

1.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4A6Q_p0YLo [PHP]
2.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv0_9TByVY4 [MEAN
stack]
3.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEQqaUE8YUw [PHP
and API’s]
4.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htMVDqfmutI
[Android SQLite example]
5.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xd61kC90GU
[DoctorAPP Android]
6.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtbDgMRr_c4 [AWS
services]
7.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHnibUx1OmI
[ReactJS Demo]

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