"When responding to case studies, its important to read the whole case and form your opinion. Your response to case studies, should be a MINIMUM of 50 words and needs to include what YOU would do if YOU were put into the situation."
Ready the study below,
All year long you plan Service Learning Trips for students and no matter how well you try to plan them, something always comes up . This year, you have one trip planned to leave for Guatemala where they are going to spend the week teaching leadership in various High Schools . You also have another trip planned to go to the Dominican Republic to work with low-income families and orphans . Both are going to share a bus to the Miami Airport because they fly out at similar times (the Guatemala team flies out 25 minutes earlier than the Dominican Republic team) . In order to make their flights, they are scheduled to leave at 5:00 a .m . for the bus ride that will take an hour and a half to get to the airport .
While the Guatemala team arrives on time, the Dominican Republic team is missing their male student leader . Along with being one of the trip's leaders, he is also the only male going on the trip because all of the others needed to drop out due to financial reasons . Attempts to reach him or his roommates on the phone have proved to be unsuccessful and it's now 5:30 a .m .
In planning these trips, you told everybody that you would leave people behind if they don't wake up on time, but that's not so easy to do in this situation . The Dominican Republic trip, while not overly dangerous, would face some serious complications without a male presence on the trip . However, if more time is taken to wait for this leader, the Guatemala team might miss their flight . The student leader lives about fifteen minutes away from campus, but it's on the way to the airport, so you decide to start driving and hope he answers his phone before you get to his apartment .
As you get closer to where the leader lives, he still hasn't answered his phone . You could pull into the parking lot to knock on his door, but every minute spent waiting for this leader makes it highly possible that you'll run into rush hour traffic in Miami, which would most likely result in the teams missing their flights .
> What would you do?
If I were in that situation and I was running out of time and I thought I could make it on time I would drive to the apartment and knock on the door very loudly until he wakes up. I would also check to see if the door is unlocked and which if it is I would walk in and wake him up and help him up and help him pack very quickly. I would not really care what he has packed, hopefully he will have the right clothes and stuff. We would then speed back to the airport and make it in time.
ReplyDeleteI would leave him. He is the leader, and needs to be aware of the big mistake he made. He can catch a later flight to get where they are going. He should not be in charge if he can't do anything right. The team should not have to know where he is 24/7. He ruined the trip for everyone if he never made it to the airport, or called back.
ReplyDeleteHe is the one who made the mistake of not getting where he needed to be. I would leave hime and just go. If he was a leader he should make sure he is there for anything and everything. He probably made his team worried and he didnt answer his phone or anything. He ruined it for the team being a leader takes a lot of responsibility and he shouldn't be a leader if he cant do things right.
ReplyDeleteI would leave without him, he is the leader, and should have been more responsible and been there on time....I think that they should get a new leader, if the one that they have is not as responsible as he should be. He should have been there on time. It's not right that the whole team should have to suffer, because they have a bad leader. The team should leave without him, and find a new and better leader for the team, one that will be there on time.
ReplyDeleteI would leave him. He is one of the leader and should be on time they should not have to go pick him up and wait for him and risk missing their flight. The team should not have to worry about where he is he should be there on time and even early. If they are late he ruined the whole trip for everyone.
ReplyDeleteIf I were to be in this situation that she is in, I would quickly try to wake the him up. Mostly because if they didn't they would put there lives in danger and I do not think that would be worth it. Also, he might have left his phone on silent so he couldn't hear his alarm or her calls so it might be sleeping but ready to go so it is a matter of him just waking up.
ReplyDeleteI would leave him. He is already late and I wouldn't want to miss out on a opportunity like that. Hes obviously not a good leader if he cant be on time. If its truly important that he be there he could catch another flight. I would be extremely angry if i were any of those students. I would also never trust him with a lot of responsibility again.
ReplyDeleteIf I was in this situation i would stop and knock real fast. If he wouldn't open the door I would just leave. If he would call when we pass I would make him drive if he can if he wants to come. But if we knew we were gonna not make it no matter what I would just drive past them.
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