Philippine Christian University

Graduate School of Business and Management

Management Research

Management Analysis and Decision Making

Time are slow for your company right now and with the rising of materials and wages, your
profits are at an all-time low. Because of this unfortunate situation, you will need to let some
employees go. The senior management team has already compiled the list of people whose
employment will be terminated two weeks from today. However, the people on the list will
not know until the day of the termination.

You have called a meeting of your department managers and supervisors. The management
and supervisors do not know that a list has been created, so you will need to let them know
this at some point in the conversation. Also, they will not be able to see the list until the day of
the termination. Obviously, this is a very confidential topic and should not be shared with
anybody outside this meeting.

The purpose of your meeting today is to confide in this group and assure them that none of
them are on the list. You also want to get their feedback on how the general employee base
will react to the news and event in two weeks. Next, you would like to understand and
anticipate any questions that they believe will arise so that appropriate answers can be
prepared. Finally, you would like to devise an action plan/ transition plan for the day after the
event.

What you can tell the managers is the number of people they will each be losing, if you find
that information important to share. Here is the breakdown.
 Order Processing will lose four of its 12 people
 Human resources will lose two of its 5 people
 Production will lose eight of its 40 people

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 Philippine Christian University
Graduate School of Business and Management
Management Research

Name: Harsey Joy I. Punzalan Section: Trimester: 2nd

1) How can management research be employed?

They identify actionable research as studies that managers can use either
conceptually or instrumentally as a basis for guiding future action. They understand
more comprehensively the causality of the malaise in their department or organization.

2) What is the dilemma facing the researcher or the manager?

1. The company right now have time slow and with the rising of materials and
wages, and the profits are at an all-time low.
2. Some of the employees are going to be terminated.

3) What must the researcher accomplish?

1. To solve the problem in the current situation

2. To understand and anticipate any questions that they believe will arise so
that appropriate answers can be prepared
3. To get their feedback on how the general employee base will react to the
news and event in two weeks

4) What are the conflicting conclusions?

You will need to let some employees go.

5) Use a decision about how employees will be retrenched. What research is applicable
applied or basic research? Why?

For me, it is fine to lower their wages than terminating the employees because
at this time of crisis they can’t able to find a new job because many companies
also terminated their employees for the sake of the company.