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Case Incident 8.2
The Vacation Request
Tom Blair has a week’s vacation coming and really wants to
take it the third week in
May, which is the height of the bass fishing season. The only
problem is that two of
the other five members of his department have already
requested and received
approval from their boss, Luther Jones, to take off that same
week. Afraid that Luther
would not approve his request, Tom decided to forward his
request directly to Harry
Jensen, who is Luther’s boss and who is rather friendly to Tom
(Tom has taken Harry
fishing on several occasions). Not realizing that Luther has not
seen the request,
Harry approves it. Several weeks pass before Luther finds out,
by accident, that Tom
has been approved to go on vacation the third week of May.
The thing that really bugs Luther is that this is only one of
many instances in which
his subordinates have gone directly to Harry and gotten
permission to do something.Just last week, in fact, he overheard
a conversation in the washroom to the effect that,
“If you want anything approved, don’t waste time with Luther;
go directly to Harry.”
Questions
1. What should Harry have done?
2. Who is at fault, Harry or Tom?
3. What if Luther confronts Harry with the problem and he
simply brushes it off by
saying he is really only helping?
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