Typical Scenario – 8.2 The Vacation Request

I need assistance with the following:

Tom Blair has a weks vacation coming and really wants to take the third week in May., which is at the height of Bass fishing season. The only problem is that two of the other five memebers of his dept. have already requested and received approval from their boss, Luther Jones, to take the same week off. Afraid that Luther will not approve his request, Tom decided to forward his request directly to Harry Jensen, who is Luther’s boss and who is rather friendly to Tom, as they have both gone fishing together before. Not realizing that Luther hasn’t seen the request, Harry approves it.

Several weeks pass before Luther finds out, by accident, that Tom has been approved to go on vacation the third week of May.

Luther’s big irritation is that this is only one of several instances in which his subordinates have gone directly to Harry and gotten permission for something.

Just last week, in fact, he overheard staff in the washroom say “if you need anything approved, don’t waste time with Luther, go directly to Harry.”

Questions:

1. What should Harry have done?

2. Who is at fault, Harry or Tom?

3. What if Luther confronts Harry with the problem and he simply brushes it off saying that he is really only helping?

Requirements:

1. Apply critical thinking and the learning from the major objectives of this week’s material.

2. There is no need for additional sources. Any paraphrasing, quotations, or using sources from outside this course must follow APA 6th edition standards.

3. Formal and APA writing and style is required.

4. Word count: 800 minimum: Responses should be between 800 and 1,000 words excluding the title page, abstract, keywors and references.

Thank you in advance,