The Organization and Situation
For my organization I chose Tesla even though I have never worked for the company and have no affiliation with them. The situation was chosen based off known issues at Tesla and Elon Musk's other companies, and that is being forced to work long hours. In this situation, I am a project manager working for Tesla's solar division with a team of workers that have a short deadline to increase production capacity for the solar roofing. My team and I are being asked to work twelve hour days, six days a week until completion of the project which is expected to be six months.
Choosing an Organization Worksheet
For my organization I chose Tesla even though I have never worked for the company and have no affiliation with them. The situation was chosen based off known issues at Tesla and Elon Musk's other companies, and that is being forced to work long hours. In this situation, I am a project manager working for Tesla's solar division with a team of workers that have a short deadline to increase production capacity for the solar roofing. My team and I are being asked to work twelve hour days, six days a week until completion of the project which is expected to be six months.
Choosing an Organization Worksheet
Reflection
Looking back at writing about a company I have never worked for was difficult in some respects, but easier in others. I wanted to make sure that I wasn't writing anything that wasn't realistic given the company and the situation, and because of that I had to read a lot about work practices at Tesla. It made it somewhat easier after Musk purchased Twitter since news about what was expected of the workers was all over social media and the news. Choosing a fictional situation made it easier as we moved through the different frames and I feel Tesla was a great use case. I have learned to look at the different aspects of a company and different ways of dealing with situations. While I think it is easier to look back on situations and see how you might have done things differently, I enjoyed the freedom of creating the situation and writing different scenarios.