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The Management Training Tool Kit
Case Discussion:
Pain in Claims
Summary
Sandy Jones supervises a group of eight clerks who do high-volume, relatively routine typing and
fi ling tasks. The employees tend to be young women who recently graduated from high school. For
most, this is their fi rst job.
Katherine Bruskowicz is perhaps Sandy’s best performer. However, she tends to be disrup tive
in the workplace. For example, she is a loud and incessant talker. She is also verbally abu sive. She
boasts about her boyfriends and belittles Sandy, who has no boyfriends. She also teases Sandy about
being overweight.
Although some of the employees take her in stride, others are upset by her. Sandy believes ...