
105 – The Marty Incident
Purpose/Objectives: This exercise illustrates how a manager or supervisor
can affect a group’s motivation and effectiveness to
work as a team when the manager or supervisor does
not accurately define a problem. The “Marty” incident
addresses what happens when a group participates in a
decision over which it has no control. Marty, the
manager, calls a meeting of his staff and opens the
meeting by asking for input about mandatory weekly
reports. When the group responds negatively, he has
nowhere to go. He is backed into a corner and ends the
meeting demanding that the reports be completed by
noon each Friday. The ...