ENGR 400 Corporate Dynamics for

Engineers

(6th July 2017)

Dr. Eşref Ünsal

(Lecture 4)
• Mid term Exam on Thu the 20th of July
at 09:45, room to be announced
• When you want to find a job that you can
enjoy for a long time:
-look for an innovative company,
-which looks after its employees well
• Look for a boss
-who trusts people, shares his
knowledge with them and is caring
• Priority setting:
– Health problems for yourself
– Family matters of importance
– Boss related matters
– People reporting to you
– Colleague at the office
– Customer-dealer-suppliers

– From inner to outer problems

– Don’t touch matters you cannot do anything
about
Topic suggestions for the debates:
• Obeying rules
• Factsheet accuracies
• Creativity
• Managing the balance between personal and
business life
• Customer orientation
• survive in a company, serve the boss
• why snakes are there
• Postman at the door
• Convincing others
• Start-up vs large co
• When the wall thickness of an LPG
(Liquified Petroleum Gas) storage tank
goes down to the minimum level set in the
standard, do you take it out of service?
Why-why not?
– The safety margin in the standards
– Other implications of taking it out (cost,
availability of the product, down-time,etc.)
• The concept of internal and external
customers in a company, internal
customers (the fellow employees, your
co-workers) are always more important.
Jim Collins (of Business School of Stanford
University), ‘’Good to Great’’, ‘’Built to Last’’
•How do you identify the basic parameters
which define a good company?
•One of them is appointing senior managers
from own people (no or limited pro-hire).
Pro’s and con’s of doing so