Professor Sam Benson was about to end of the class session, his only course left students with projects. Then he got a phone call from a student, George McHenry, who missed 11 of 20 sessions. McHenry wanted to know what he needs to do to save his position in the section, so that he will be given a category-III class, and not a category-IV classes and avoid consideration of the Scientific Committee of Performance (possibly jeopardizing his chances of ending ). In its first year, Benson did not know how to handle the situation and received conflicting advice from senior colleagues of the faculty. Learning objectives: Gifts of real situations and problems the reader to come to a satisfactory solution. The reader will have to consider the short-and long-term consequences of the decisions that are chosen with careful consideration regarding the reader's own philosophy of the division of responsibility in the learning process and the role of incentives and punitive punishment. "Hide
by Steven J. Spear Source: Harvard Business School 3 pages. Publication Date: June 4, 2001. Prod. #: +601182- PDF-ENG