Purpose of inquiry

Sergio Pellegrinelli

Chapter Chapter 10 in Thinking and Acting as a Great Programme Manager, 2008, pp 121-133 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Geri Walsh only had a couple of hours to make some inquiries before briefing the Human Resources and Operations Directors of Affiliated Chemicals (AC). Appointed Programme Manager for Site Modernization at the Cosyvale site less than a month earlier and just back from a long weekend in Paris celebrating a wedding anniversary, Geri Walsh was plunged into the first crisis of the new role. The previous Friday evening David Wilkins, one of the project managers on the Site Modernization Programme, had walked out of the Cosyvale site, leaving a note for Geri Walsh and the Site General Manager. David Wilkins claimed that he had instructed solicitors to make a claim for constructive dismissal (de facto termination of a contract of employment through unilateral variations in its terms and conditions). He also claimed to have sent a complete set of the project files to the Health and Safety Executive with a detailed note laying out how AC was trying to coerce him into adopting unsafe practices on the site. As a postscript to the handwritten note, David Wilkins had threatened to go to the local press about his safety concerns at the site.

Keywords: Fractionate Column; Safety Executive; Project File; Friday Evening; Unsafe Practice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230583085_10

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