Time management and department integration are two of the things crucial in a company and which determine the final outcome of any action or project one may embark upon. As is the case here, Carl Robins found himself in a difficult situation because he was no able to properly schedule the activities that needed to be performed in his department so that the project could go on at the planned date and time. Carl Robins, working as a campus recruiter for ABC Inc. successfully managed to hire 15 new employees, trainees which would have been working for Monica Carrolls, the Operations Supervisor. In order to properly integrate them into the working mechanism, these new hires needed to be trained and they needed to have all their hire paperwork ready so that they could start working by July, as it had been discussed with Monica Carrolls.

This meant that Carl needed to properly coordinate all the tasks he needed to perform in order to make the hires operational and the most important actions referred to training sessions and all paper work completed by the 15th of June, when a new hire orientation was to take place.

The problems began to appear after Memorial Day, when Carl discovered that none of the hires had taken the drug test and that many of the new trainees had no application completed. This meant that the finalization of paperwork may have been compromised and that June 15th became a fantasy date.

In other conditions, the training seemed compromised as well: there were only three orientation manuals and these had pages missing. On the other hand, the training room had been booked for the entire month of June by his colleague from technology services, who had the room for other...

In this situation, Carl needed to come up with swift solutions.
In my opinion, the first stringent problem he needs to deal with is the training room problem. As we have seen previously, this has been booked for the entire month of June, time during which Carl planned to get the new hires ready to start working in July. At this point, there are two alternative solutions that Carl can pursue.

The first one would include postponing the training session for the beginning of July and perhaps shortening it for a two weeks period, so that the trainees could be ready to start work by mid-July. Of course, this has several disadvantages. First of all, the deal with Monica had been that they would be ready by the beginning of July. Second of all, shortening their training period may mean that they will not be fully able to perform tasks within the company.

The second alternative solution to be considered: working out a common schedule with Joe, so that the two teams can actually share the training room throughout June. For example, Carl can use the room later in the afternoon and during lunch hours, because it is less likely that Joe intends to have training seminars in the room for the entire month of June, for 8 hours a day, every day of the week. Joe can show that he is a team player, understands that his colleague has made a mistake and helps out with the situation.

On the other hand, a note is to be made here. The problem with the training room is only a manifestation of the actual problem here, strictly related to Carl and Carl's behavior. By his actions, he has shown that he has no actual ties with the company and that he doesn't really know what…