Korea University Business School

ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
Professor Gukhyun Cho

Case Analysis for Michelle Levene (A)

Muzaffar Khusnidinov 2011417074

November 30, 2011

Michelle Levene (A)

Michelle Levene is incisive, action oriented, quick-witted employee of Genzyme Corp, a pharmaceutical manufacturer. She realizes that she is pregnant a few days before receiving an offer for her dream job. The new position would require Levene to travel extensively, something she would not be able to do towards the end of the pregnancy and while caring for a newborn. She has to decide whether accept the new job offer and whether to tell her new manager about her pregnancy. There are several issues I want to discuss about this topic. Personal values and value conflicts; Building the trust at her organization; Decision making process for Michele

Personal values essentially represent the thinkgs that have meaning to us in our lives. Michelles personal values are important to understanding of her behavior because they influence her behavior under pregnancy. If we can expose Michelles characters to Schwarts value theory, we can observe that she strives for achievement, personal success through demonstrating competence in her organization. She has creativity and self-direction bias. However, she also values family security, stability; she respects and seeks advice from her family members. First of all, Michele should clearly decide for herself what her intrapersonal values are. That way she can overcome her intrapersonal value conflict which she faces. Next issue is about the trust between Michelle and her new manager. Personally, I consider that if she does not tell about her pregnancy it might affect the trust between them. Moreover, she can receive a bad name in her organization for not telling the fact. Trust is reciprocal faith in her behavior in this case. Communication, support,

predictability are considered the most essential constituent of trust. Without being consistent and predictable in her new beginning she cannot build trust in her company. Thus, I consider the recommendations of his brother are the most applicable. This is also considered as a conceptual style of decision making, having high tolerance for ambiguity and tending to focus on the people and social aspects of a work situation. His brother takes a broad perspective to problem solving and considers many options and future possibilities. Michele is young and has great ambitions for her future career. From this perspective conceptual style decision-making of his brother would be helpful for her.