6.7. A FEDERAL R&D LABORATORY CASE

Some people believe that there is considerable inconsistency in the way vacation time, flextime, being allowed to work at home, and other personnel matters are handled by the various department managers. Some managers are very liberal, while others are not at all. Some employees see their friends in other sections of the organization behave in ways in which they are not allowed to behave.

While the personnel department allows considerable flexibility in such matters, it interferes when performance evaluations are done. A case in point is Dr. Blank, who is a researcher and has provided the following account. His supervisor, Dr. Ablex, asked him to do some work that was rather unskilled, simply because the work ...

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