Case StudyFollow the Presentation Structure:

SLIDE-1: Problem Topic

SLIDE-2: Name & ID

SLIDE-3: What is an Interview?

SLIDE-4: Was there any short coming in Marias interview process?SLIDE-5: What would you do if were in the interview board?

SLIDE-6: List 7 types of questions that you would ask if you were in the interview board?SLIDE-7: Executive summary

SLIDE-8: Reference

Case Study: What is it and how it can help you as a manager, an employee or a business student?

Case problems provide a useful medium of testing and applying some of the ideas the students learn from their regular class lectures. It brings abstract ideas about the real scenario or possible situations that are happening in the corporate world. All the case problems that follow are true situations recorded by case research. Certain case details are disguised, and any similarity to actual person is purely coincidental. These cases have a decision making emphasis in the sense that they end at a point that leaves managers and/or employees with a certain decisions to make. Most of the case emphasize decisional problems of managers. One decision often is: Do I have a further problem? If that decision is in the affirmative, then further analysis must be made. What problems exists? Why are they problems? What can be done to solve them within the resource limits available? Is there any alternatives? This is the reality(problems) that every manager faces in operating a business. No manager can escape the situation.

Even a person who does not have a plan to be a manager can gain much from analyzing these cases, because all the employees need to develop their own analytical skills about human behavior in order to work successfully with their associates and with management in organizations. Placing yourself in the employee role in a case, you can ask yourself: Why do my associates(workmates or colleagues) act the way they do in this situation? Why is management acting the way it is in this instance? Was there something in my behavior that caused this actions? How can I change my behavior in order to work more effectively with the organization and my associates and thereby reach my goals more easily?

Since these case problems/study describe real situations, they include both good and bad practices. These cases are not presented as examples of good management, effective organizational behavior, bad management, or ineffective organizational behavior. Readers may make these judgments for themselves. However, the primary value of studying cases lies in the development of analytical skills and the application subjective judgments to solve challenging problems. Case Problem: The out-of-control interviewMaria Fernandez is a bright, popular and well informed mechanical engineer who graduated with an engineering degree from State University of Texas in June, 2010. During the spring preceding her graduation, she went out on many job interviews, most of which she thought were conducted courteously and were reasonably useful in giving both her and the prospective employer a good impression of where each of them stood on matters of importance to both of them. It was, therefore, with great anticipation that she looked forward to an interview with one of the firm in which she most wanted to work: Apex Environmental. She had always had a strong interest in cleaning up the environment and firmly believed that the best use of her training skills lay in working for a firm like Apex, where she thought she could have a successful career while making the world a better place.The interview, however, was a disaster. Maria walked into a room in which five men- the president of the company, two vice presidents, the marketing director and another engineer- begun throwing questions at her that she felt were aimed primarily at tripping her up rather than finding out what she could offer through her engineering skills. The questions ranged from unnecessarily discourteous(Why are you doing the job of a waitress in your college if you are such a good candidate?) to irrelevant and embarrassing(Did you steal something from your store ever?). Then after the interview, she met with two of the gentlemen individually(including the president) and the discussions focused almost exclusively on her technical expertise. She thought that these later discussions went fairly well. However, given the apparent aimlessness and even mean-spiritedness of the panel interview, she was astonished when several days later she got a job offer from the firm.

The offer forced her to consider several matters. From her point of view, the job itself was perfect- she liked what she would be doing, the industry and the firms location. And in fact, the president had been quite courteous in subsequent discussions, as had been the other members of the management team. She was left wondering whether the panel interview had been intentionally made tense to see how she would stand up under pressure, and if so, why they would do such a thing. Discussion Questions: 1. Explain in brief different interview methods you think would be appropriate for Apex Environmental. 2. Do you think the interview type that Maria faced was well enough? Show your argument.3. List 7 questions that you would ask if you were on the interview panel for Maria.