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Defining Moments: Pay Scales
Detert, James R.; Black, ChristinaCase DARDEN-OB-1215-ELeadership and People ManagementThe only female senior partner at a boutique management consulting firm has found out that she is paid less than half of what male partners were making who were younger, less experienced, and contributing less overall to the business. When she presented her case to the senior partners and explicitly asked if the pay discrepancy is become she was a woman, they would only respond to her through lawyers. The case is designed to bring students’ inst...Starting at €8.20
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Defining Moments: Fair to Whom?
Detert, James R.; Black, Christina; Taubenfeld, BrittonCase DARDEN-OB-1261-ELeadership and People ManagementThe head of an R&D unit in a high-tech firm in India faces a tough decision about whether to recommend firing and replacing or investing even larger amounts of time and resources into training employees who have come up through India’s “reservation system.” Similar to “affirmative action” policies in the United States and Brazil (where the focus is on race), the reservation system in India is meant to counteract inequalities resulting from the hi...Starting at €8.20
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Defining Moments: MBA Hackers
Detert, James R.Case DARDEN-OB-1275-ELeadership and People ManagementThe dean of a prominent business school has learned that the system that his—and many other—business schools use to help select and notify MBA students has been hacked. The hacker posted instructions for applicants to gain access to schools’ decisions ahead of time. During the 10 hours MyMBA’s system was compromised, several hundred applicants viewed their admission status at multiple top-tier schools. MyMBA now has offered the names of the appli...Starting at €8.20
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Defining Moments: Personnel Problems - Teaching Note
Detert, James R.; Black, ChristinaTeaching Note DARDEN-OB-1209TN-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching Note for product OB-1209Starting at €0.00
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Defining Moments: Fair to Whom? - Teaching Note
Detert, James R.; Black, ChristinaTeaching Note DARDEN-OB-1261TN-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching Note for product OB-1261Starting at €0.00
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Defining Moments: Is It Worth It?
Detert, James R.; Black, ChristinaCase DARDEN-OB-1276-ELeadership and People ManagementAfter finishing a PhD in immunology and working for a few years for a large pharmaceutical company, Eric Lafferty entered an executive MBA program intending to reorient his career toward more meaningful work. Thus he leapt at the chance to work in a significant leadership position at a government agency where he would be in charge of a group that vetted academic proposals to work toward experimental vaccines and drugs. However, he begins to recon...Starting at €8.20
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Dirección estratégica de recursos humanos en la pequeña y mediana empresa
Sánchez-Runde, CarlosTechnical Note DPN-42Leadership and People ManagementSe establecen pautas para la creación y desarrollo inicial del departamento de recursos humanos en empresas pequeñas y medianasStarting at €8.20
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La valoración del impacto económico de la actuación del departamento de recursos humanos
Sánchez-Runde, Carlos; Pascual, Ernesto M.Technical Note DPN-46Leadership and People ManagementEn esta nota técnica se repasan distintos enfoques para la medición del impacto económico-financiero de la actuación del departamento de recursos humanos de la empresa.Starting at €8.20
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El dilema de Griffiths
Sánchez-Runde, CarlosCase DPO-148Leadership and People ManagementEl caso presenta el dilema de Joan Griffiths, responsable sindical en una planta de Toshiba en Plymouth, Reino Unido, ante la inflexibilidad de la dirección para aceptar un aumento salarial por encima del propuesto. La planta se rige por un innovador sistema de relaciones laborales que incluyen un consejo asesor con representantes de los empleados y la renuncia del sindicato al uso de la huelga.Starting at €8.20
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La Republican Pacific Company
Sánchez-Runde, CarlosCase DPO-441Leadership and People ManagementLa versión condensada de este caso es Republican Pacific Company (condensado) DPO-440. Se describe el proceso de creación del Departamento de Recursos Humanos en una empresa de fabricación de puertas. La empresa se localiza en Oregón (Estados Unidos), es de tamaño medio y en sus primeros años de funcionamiento experimenta un fuerte crecimiento. El caso permite analizar la función de la gestión del personal y la relación entre la estrategia compet...Starting at €8.20