Question & Answer: Analysis the situation and provide feedback on you would have done to resolve…..

Analysis the situation and provide feedback on you would have done to resolve the issue at hand:

Isaac Muriilo, the accounting manager at Precision Exavation was a hunter and gun collector. He and Kevin Carstens, an accountant who had worked for Precision for 5 months liked to talk about gunds and occasionally bring gunds from their collections to work to show each other. On September 1, Kevin was braggin that he had just received a concealed gun permit to Gloria Horner, an administrative assistant in the accounting department. Gloria asked Kevin if ha had one with him. Kevin replied “No” and Gloria turned around in her chair and resumed working. Seconds later, Gloria felt something touch the hair on the back of her head. When she turned around, Keving was laughing and holding a small gun. “I lied!” he chuckled and out the gun in his waistband and walked back to his desk, A very upset Gloria reported the incident to Issac, the accounting manager, who apologized and said he would take care of it, reminding her that there was not a policy against having a weapon at Precision. The next day, Isaac ctold Gloria that Kevin had been warned about his behavior with the gun and wouldnt bring guns to work again. On the evening of October 10, Kevin was arrested at the home of his ex-wife for threatening her with a loaded gun. The next morning, Maxwell Bauer, the HR manager at Precision asked Isaac, the accounting ,manager if he had any problems with Kevin in the past. Isaac said no, making no mention of the incident with Gloria. Maxwell, the HR manager explained that he was going to fire Kevin anyways. A few minutes later, Gloria appeared in the HR office and asked Maxwell is he knew that Isaac and Kevin had a mutual interest in guns. When he said no, Gloria went on to explain how Kevin had made her uncomfortable on Spetember 1st by brandishing his gun in her presence. Maxwell was furious that Isaac had not told him about the incident. He then called Isaac to his office and angrily chastised him for facilitating the “workplace gun show” and for not repoting the incident or disciplinary action to HR. Maxwell quickly created and distributed a “No Weapons policy to all employees”. On Novemeber 22 Gloria again appeared in Maxwell HR office, visibly upset. “Would you please transfer me to another department? Ever since I told you about the guns at work, my boss Isaac has made me the scrapgoat for anything that doesnt go his way. He’s pilling on the busy work and cutting my hours. It’s affecting my home life and I just cant take it anymore. On top of that, he still talks about guns all the time and it really upsets me. Just today, I heard him talking to Harold Silva about deer season starting. Harold saif he was taking the afternoon off to hunt and had his shotgun and voeralls in his truck in the parking lot.” Maxwell told Gloria to take the afternoon off with pay, and he would sor tita ll out before she came to work in the morning. Gloria gratefully accepted the offer and left. Maxwell was left to determine a course of action for Isaac, that he blamed for the whole gun mess and Harold Silva, a popular project manager with 25 years at the company who was in violation of the “No weapons” policy because he had a shotgun in company parking lot.

Expert Answer

Below is how the case can be handled to ensure the company’s policies are enforced without any exceptions –

  1. Determine the course of action for violating ‘No weapons’ policy at workplace by Harold Silva. The action can be reprimanding Harold by issuing an official notice regarding the violation. Depending on Harold’s response, further course of action can be initiated like including severance of pay or suspension from office for a certain duration of time with loss of pay etc.
  2. Regarding the behavior of Issac and his retaliatory actions against Gloria for the complaint that she gave to Maxwell regarding the topic of guns at work and how Issac is encouraging the same, Maxwell needs to talk to Issac, other colleagues of Gloria to inquire on the retaliatory acts.
  3. Based on the investigation and confirmation, Issac needs to be reprimanded for his acts and if they are continued, he needs to be either transferred to other department or stripped off his responsibilities and current role.
  4. Other disciplinary actions include demotion, transfers, communicating his acts to all the employees etc. depending on how Issac would deal with the issue.
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