1. What are Sherry Hunt’s values and motivations in this case? Do you share these values and motivations? How important (from the perspective of both personal well-being and organizational effectiveness) do you think it is for organizations to allow and encourage employees to voice their values and live their values in the workplace?
2. If you were Hunt at the end of the case, what course of action would you pursue? What person or what entity would you tell, how (e.g., by email, in person), and why? Be mindful of what motivates different stakeholders and therefore the resistance with which they may respond.
3. Draft a short script of what you would say to that stakeholder that considers the promising arguments or action levers you might use in response to potential pushback.
- Situation(need to know in order to ask the right questions)
- Questions(not included in written response…but ask yourself these questions as you draft your essay)
- What’s the problem?
- What are the decision options?
- Who or what is being evaluated?
- What’s at stake?
- What’s the most important criteria for this sort of evaluation?
- Hypothesis(not included in written response…but ask yourself these questions as you draft your essay)
- Tentative explanation that accounts for the set of facts/situation
- Can be tested by further investigation
- Which do you have most confidence in?
- Your Arguments
- Expresses WHY
- Position(pick a side)
- Expresses a conclusion
- Answers WHAT
- Proof&Action(prove your point & provide steps to accomplish)
- Prove something, not look for something to prove
- Supporting evidence for your position
- Persuade
- Action Plan
- HOW would you implement the decision you’re recommending?
- Short-term
- Long-term
- What are the risks?
- Discuss main risk & measures to manage
- Alternatives (what other views are out there?)
- Every position has a weakness
- What’s the strongest alternative to your position?
- Problem
- Can you define the problem differently?
- Decision
- What’s the biggest downside to your recommended decision?
- Evaluation
- What’s another way to evaluate your overall assessment?
- What’s the weakestalternative to your position?
- Brief statement (1-2 lines)
- Conclusion (restate your position and plan)
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