7 power point slides explaining (For) question solving the case

Again, each student will be provided with a topic to be handled by teams of three. Each team member will be presenting opposing arguments, one for and one against that topic, the third will play both roles. The point is that as managers, clarity of thought influences not only the quality of their life but all those who work for them. As decision-makers, managers often need to be willing to take a position and try to influence others to make a decision that they try to promote. To be effective, they should be willing and able to describe their rationale for the choice they made.

After a topic is assigned, students will develop PowerPoint slides to support their position (20 slides max, not including references slides listing your sources). The rest of the teams will ask at least one question per team, but no more than three questions, so each person may clarify/defend their position. The exception is that you may not ask questions of your counterpart who is arguing the opposite side of your position. Instructors will judge the quality of your presentation based on the criteria found in the rubric. Furthermore, the instructor may also question if they feel a position lacks merit. Additionally, instructors will look at the quality of your questions and answers to other students and at the end, a student’s rationale for choosing one side of an argument over the other.

John is a long term employee at the company where he works and has many friends, most of whom are now much higher in the organization they work in than John even though he started at just about the same time as most of them. The company hired him for an entry level job even though he had not completed his degree in engineering while most of the people hired with him had completed their degrees. Not having a degree meant that it took much more time to move up in the company and after a few years the difference in pay and perks among those who started with him became obvious. Even though he and his family had many friends who worked at the company his work behavior became more and more problematic and in fact he often refused to produce anything work related at all since, as he saw it, the company was at fault for not promoting him. The answer to the problem for this personnel issues seems to be obvious, or is it?

1) FOR: John should not be fired and should be considered for promotion.