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Case 7
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Mary Corey
Background Information
Mary Corey recently completed her fourth year with Statewide Services Corpora tion. In
her position as customer support specialist, she consistently received high performance
evaluations—until recently. Indeed, her most recent evaluation, com pleted three weeks
ago, rated her as “less than satisfactory.” Her supervisor, Helen Rowe, wondered why
this previously strong employee had fallen so quickly.
Helen had just returned from a meeting with her boss, Betty Allen, when again the
subject of Mary came up. Betty suggested that Helen look through Mary’s past work
records to try to fi nd some clues about ...