Case 7.

BATANGAS POLYTECHNIC COLLEGE: The Morning

After
Engineer Felicidad Lazaro, a mechanical engineering
graduate of Adamson University, has been operating in
the past five years an auto parts supply in Kumintang
Ilaya, Batangas City. It is a lucrative business she inhe-
rited from her father.
Four years ago, she started teaching on a part-time
basis at the Batangas Polytechnic College. After a year,
she became a full-time faculty member of the college of
engineering. She attended to her auto parts business
after her official hours at the school.
Miss Lazaro's dedication to her duties earned her the
chairmanship of the Mechanical Engineering Depart -
ment. When her boss, the dean, was offered a good paying
job abroad, he resigned. Miss Lazaro was named the new
dean of the College of Engineering.
Miss Lazaro feels that even if she is offered a job
anywhere, she cannot accept it because of her concern for
her business. This made her also think that she must take
her new job as dean, seriously.
Miss Lazaro's first concern is to recruit well-qualified
engineers to fill up the slots left by five faculty members
who resigned. An advertisement for the vacancies was
made. After a few weeks of waiting, only ten applications
were forwarded to her. Nine of the applicants were new
graduates and have no job experiedce of any kind. The
tenth applicant is a newly retired government employee
with no teaching experience.
Miss Lazaro slowly realized that there are good
engineers in the area but they are not attracted by the
prospect of teaching engineering subjects. Miss Lazaro is
also aware that even those that are currently employed
by the school are only waiting for a good job offer from
other institutions.

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