Friends,
Apologies for cross-posting. Here are some great resources! Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to Paul and the CMS group for leading us through "the Dark Side..."
Regina
Paul Adler wrote:
In January 2002, the Critical Management Studies Interest Group and the the Management Education Division announced a case-writing competition for "the best case-study of the worst business practices" (see Announcement at http://aom.pace.edu/cms/). The goal was to encourage the development of teaching cases that documented the worst practices of business so that students have the opportunity to examine how such practices come in being, how they function, and how they might be changed. We received a gratifying number of submissions, which we are delighted to post on the CMS website (http://aom.pace.edu/cms/ ):
Anna O'Leary:A Case of Work Victimisation in the UK Public Sector?David Wornham (Bristol Ethics Case Centre)
Baltic National Independent Televisionby Irene R. Foster (consultant in economics and business in Nashville, TN) and Peter Redvers-Lee (Vanderbilt University)
Beth And Dan: A Clash Of EthicsGayle Porter (Rutgers University)
César Chávez High School Case StudyVictor Forberger (Center for Urban and Regional Policy Northeastern University)
Double Shuffle: The dark side of the Casino supply industryGeoff Carter and Rod Gapp (School of Marketing and Management, Griffith University, Gold Coast. Australia)
Food Lion vs. the UFCW: Time for a Change?Paul M. Swiercz (Dept. of Management Science, George Washington University)
The Rise and Fall of IridiumAndrew Inkpen (Thunderbird Graduate School of Management)
Kmart Union in Greensboro Fights for a ContractPamela Varley and Marshall Ganz (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)
Lincoln DinerJanice Foley (University of Regina) and John Melnyk (University of Winnipeg)
Murphy Farms, Inc.Alexis Downs (University of Central Oklahoma) and Mark Sharfman (University of Oklahoma)
One Day in the Life of Ian Dennis-VeitchTim Hare (Wellington Institute of Technology, New Zealand)
Setting a production target: The tale of management in an industrial corporation of developing countryShahadat Khan (Department of Marketing, Monash University, Australia)
Sprint - La Conexion FamiliarDaniel Campbell and Ann Frost (Ivey School of Management, University of Western Ontario) A panel of judges reviewed these submissions, and decided to make the award for the best submission to Paul Swiercz for his case on Food Lion and the UFCW. This case is intended for undergraduate and graduate courses in Strategy, Strategic Human Resource Management, Retail Management, Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations. Paul describes its teaching objectives as:* To examine the low cost competitive strategies and their consequences.
* To explore the strategic repercussions of highly negative news coverage.
* To investigate the "corporate campaign" as a contemporary union organizing strategy and its consequences for HR system design.The case achieves these objectives admirably. Paul also has available an Epliogue, and Appendix, and a Teaching Note. On behalf of us all, I would thank all those who submitted their material. It's great stuff!Paul<x-sigsep> --
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Prof. Paul S. Adler,
Management and Organization Dept,
Marshall School of Business,
University of Southern California,
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0808
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