Case 5.

KUNDIMAN COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION:

Mr. Lonely
The Kundiman Communications Corportion (KCC)
is a local company with more than 2,000 persons in its
payroll. The company's top management is composed of
the President, the Vice President for Marketing, the Vice
President for Operations, and the Vice President for
Administration. .
A member of the staff, Engineer Lorenzo de Guzman,
an electronics engineering graduate, has just received an
order from his immediate superior, the VP for Operations,
to head the newly built telecommunication facility in
Antipolo, Rizal. So far, he is the only company personnel
identified with the new facility. He was given three months
to make the facility operational.
Engineer de Guzman appraised that for the Antipolo
unit to operate, it will require the services of a number
of persons skilled in the various activities that will be
undertaken.
As he has been working with KCC for ten years (five
years in the field and five years in the head office),
Engineer de Guzman is familiar with many aspects of the
firm's operation. Some of the supervisors and three of the
key officers are his friends.
Engineer de Guzman felt that the various trainings
KCC provided him had really prepared him well for the
technical aspects of his new job. His exposure to the
different units at the head office will also be useful in some
ways to the administrative aspects of his position.
However, his trainings and experiences have not provided
him with the expertise to recruit qualified persons to
occupy the various positions that will be created. 'lb begin
with, he does not even have information on the number
and nature of the positions to be created.
As he was inspecting the building in Antipolo where
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