"When responding to case studies, its important to read the whole case and form your opinion. Your response to case studies, should be a MINIMUM of 50 words and needs to include what YOU would do if YOU were put into the situation."
Ready the study below,
All year long you plan Service Learning Trips for students and no matter how well you try to plan them, something always comes up . This year, you have one trip planned to leave for Guatemala where they are going to spend the week teaching leadership in various High Schools . You also have another trip planned to go to the Dominican Republic to work with low-income families and orphans . Both are going to share a bus to the Miami Airport because they fly out at similar times (the Guatemala team flies out 25 minutes earlier than the Dominican Republic team) . In order to make their flights, they are scheduled to leave at 5:00 a .m . for the bus ride that will take an hour and a half to get to the airport .
While the Guatemala team arrives on time, the Dominican Republic team is missing their male student leader . Along with being one of the trip's leaders, he is also the only male going on the trip because all of the others needed to drop out due to financial reasons . Attempts to reach him or his roommates on the phone have proved to be unsuccessful and it's now 5:30 a .m .
In planning these trips, you told everybody that you would leave people behind if they don't wake up on time, but that's not so easy to do in this situation . The Dominican Republic trip, while not overly dangerous, would face some serious complications without a male presence on the trip . However, if more time is taken to wait for this leader, the Guatemala team might miss their flight . The student leader lives about fifteen minutes away from campus, but it's on the way to the airport, so you decide to start driving and hope he answers his phone before you get to his apartment .
As you get closer to where the leader lives, he still hasn't answered his phone . You could pull into the parking lot to knock on his door, but every minute spent waiting for this leader makes it highly possible that you'll run into rush hour traffic in Miami, which would most likely result in the teams missing their flights .
> What would you do?
I think this means that if someone is setting an example you should follow them. I like this idea because people have to show you that they're a good leader.
ReplyDeleteI would pull into the parking lot to knock on his door. If he didn't answer then I would call the travel site, then I would volunteer to go on the Dominican Republic trip so that there would be male representation on the trip. If I couldn't go I would call other male people to see if they would be able to go.
ReplyDeleteYou are already driving to his house so you might as well just quick pick him up especially if he is really important.
ReplyDeleteI would drive to the air port and leave the student behind. I don't think that it would be fair for all the kids to miss the trip just because one student failed to wake up that morning.
ReplyDeleteIt shows more leadership to pick him up, rather than leave him behind. You can always catch another flight. If you were him, you wouldn't want to be left behind.
ReplyDeleteIf I were him I would just drive the bus to the apartment and send somebody up to get him. If he doesn't respond to the first few knocks, then I would leave him behind. Maybe someone could take a car to his apartment and take him to the airport if the first team is going to miss their flight.
ReplyDeleteIf you are already going to his house you might as well just pick him up especially if he is so important. If you leave him behind you are not showing leadership. Also if you were him you would not want to be left behind. You could catch another flight also.
ReplyDeleteI think that if I was in this situation I would knock on the door and if nobody comes I would probably leave him there and see if we could quickly replace him or have the other students go to the other trip.
ReplyDeleteI would drive by his house. Knock on the door and if there is no answer then you leave and drive quickly to the airport. If it is on the way there is no harm done. They can always get a different flight if they miss the first one
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ReplyDeleteI would drive to the place where i am supposed to be in order to be on time and expirence the trip.
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