Question Students, in Week 7, you will engage in a group threaded discussion w

Students, in Week 7, you will engage in a group threaded discussion with a few of your classmates, regarding this scenario. This project overview provides you with the story for the scenario, and the issues for discussion. (The grading rubric is in doc-sharing.) Review this storyboard each week, and take notes on items you learn each week which will help you answer the questions in the group thread. Then, in Week 7 – have fun with this as a team.

The Scenario
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Your student team is a human resource consulting group, T&D Consulting (T&DC). T&DC has been asked to assist Company XYZ with some employee concerns. The in-house human resources team was recently downsized, and the remaining director of HR (Genevieve Lesst) has hired your team to assist. Your job is to review the situation, consult with each other openly, and then provide recommendations. Director Lesst has asked for a full recommendation from each of you singly, not just one from the team, because she wants to review all of your solution ideas and pick from them. Further, she wants to watch your consultation process and method, because she feels this will give her better insights as to which approach will work the best. She is also considering whether to hire your group for a longer term project in the future.

For this project, you are provided background on four employees who have moderate to serious performance issues. She wants your suggestions on how to assist them, because there are legal, ethical, and workload concerns at this time, and termination is not an option for any of the four for reasons that may make sense to you soon.

Employee #1 and Employee #2
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Jerry Dial and Francesca Corlione: International Accounting Department

Jerry Dial is 35 years old and is the vice president of the International Accounting Department, reporting to Betty Farragher, group vice president of accounting. Betty reports to the CFO, and both Betty and the CFO are frustrated with Jerry’s productivity over the past few years. They feel that they should not toss him out yet. Jerry is the son of the CFO’s best friend and fraternity brother, and Jerry practically grew up in the CFO’s house.

Jerry started working for XYZ 14 years ago directly after graduating from Penn State with a degree in accounting. He earned his CPA soon thereafter. He moved up the ladder of management quite quickly, becoming the director of international accounting at age 28. When all director positions were retitled vice president in 2008, Jerry became the company’s youngest VP. While working at XYZ, Jerry also got a master’s degree in business administration (MBA), for which the company paid.

In 2009, Jerry was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and took FMLA leave for 6 weeks. When Jerry returned, his production level markedly decreased, and his personality had changed from being a driven but easy-to-get-along-with kind of guy to cynical, snappish, and often overwhelmed. His role requires long hours and frequent travel. His illness has impacted his ability to travel, so in line with his authority as VP, he has delegated a good portion of the travel to a member of his team, Francesca Corlione. Jerry manages a department of 25 accountants, three of whom are direct reports to him; those three manage the others. Francesca manages 10 accountants, and her frequent travel means that her team sees her very little. Her team members have a lot more free time and flexibility than the other two te

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