Management Case Study

Management Case Study No.1

The manager of a large corporation got a heart attack, and the Doctortold him to go for several weeks to a farm to relax. The guy went to a farm, and after a couple of days he was very bored, so he asked the farmer to give him some job to do. The farmer told him to clean the shit of the cows. The farmer thought that to somebody coming fromthe city, working the whole life sitting in an office, it will take over a week to finish the job, but to his surprise the manager finished the job in less than one day.

The next day the farmer gave to the manager a more difficult job: to cutthe heads of 500 chickens. The farmer was sure that the manager will notbe able to do the job, but at the end of the day the job was done. The next morning, as most of the jobs in the farm were done, the farmerasked the manager to divide a bag of potatoes in two boxes: one box withsmall potatoes, and one box with big potatoes. At the end of the day the farmer saw that the manager was sitting in front of the potatoes bag, but the two boxes were empty. The farmer asked the manager: "How is that you did such difficult jobs during the first days, and now you cannot do this simple job?" The manager answered: "Listen, all my life I'm cutting heads and dealing with shit, but now you ask me to make decisions!"


Management Case Study No.2

A man goes into a pet shop to buy a parrot. The shop owner points to three identical looking parrots on a perch and says, "the parrot on the left costs 500 dollars".

"Why does the parrot cost so much," asks the man.

The shop owner says, "well, the parrot knows how to use a computer".

The man then asks about the next parrot to be told that this one costs1,000 dollars because it can do everything the other parrot can do plusit knows how to use the UNIX operating system.

Naturally, the increasingly startled man asks about the third Parrot to be told that it costs 2,000 dollars. Needless to say this begs thequestion,

"What can it do?"

To which the shop owner replies, "to be honest I have never seen it do anything, but the other two call him boss!"

Management Case Study No.3

A big manager is giving his emploees a lecture about improving production. He entered the room with a large, emgty jar, and a big bag. Presenting the jar to the emploees, he opens his bag and starts taking out rocks out of it, putting them in the jar.

As he finished, he asks his emploees whether the jar is full.

"Yes, of course."

The manager than opens a package of peas, and starts pouring them into the jar. When he finished, he asks the emploees whether the jar is full again.

"Yes, indeed"

Then he opens a package of rice, and starts pouring the rice inside. When he finishes, he asks the question again:

"Is the jar full now?"

"Yes, it is."

He takes a bottle of beer out of his bag and pours it in the jar, filling it to the edges. Then, he asks his workers:

"So, what moral have you learned today?"

"Bigger matters come first?"

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Management Case Study No. 4

This is for those amongst you that think some people get paid too much

Ever heard the story of the giant ship engine that failed? The ship's owners tried one expert after another, but none of them could figure but how to fix the engine. Then they brought in an old man who had been fixing ships since he was a youngster. He carried a large bag of tools with him, a nd when he arrived, he immediately went to work. He inspected the engine very carefully, top to bottom.

Two of the ship's owners were there, watching this man, hoping he would know what to do. After looking things over, the old man reached into his bag and pulled out a small hammer. He gently tapped something. Instantly, the engine lurched into life. He carefully put his hammer away. The engine was fixed! A week later, the owners received a bill from the old man for ten thousand dollars.

"What?!" the owners exclaimed. "He hardly did anything!"

So they wrote the old man a note saying, "Please send us an itemized bill."

The man sent a bill that read:

Tapping with a hammer . $ 2.00
Knowing where to tap ........................... $ 9998.00

Total $ 10,000.00