20 - MANCHKSTER HERALD. Thursday. July 26. 1984 BUSINESS Thompson, McCavanagh ‘Crisis of confidence’ InternafI stars endorsed by Democrats led to bailout of bank alive In tourney Is it getting easier to get fired today? ... page 3 ... page 14 page 15 True of false? else, he or sne listens, empathizes, knows when to talk Often it’s more effective — and commonplace — to 1. Office politics deserves the bad reputation it as well as when not to talk,” ease someone out of an organization, either by seems to have acquirt*d in recent years. On "false” three: "An organization without politics demotion or by stripping an individual of "meaningful 2. The best managers are "good talkers," not good Your is a dead organization.” Redding remarks that power responsibilities." listeners. strategics are merely another way of describing (There were a lot of boos and skeptical laughs when 3. The ideal organization is one without internal Money's politics. "Without the.se, the organization would I tried this out on the big office in which I have a desk, politics stagnate,” Power tactics needn't be unethical or Mr. Bedding. Just thought I’d add to your research.) Manchester, Conn. 4. Getting fired is a lot more probable today than it Worth dirty. If the climate encourages expression of dissent On “ false” five: Groups and individuals who lack Rainy tonight; was 25 years ago. Sylvia Porter and tolerance of conflict, there will be power plays power commonly fall back on dirty tactics in an effort Friday, July 27. 1984 5. In the average organization, the person who holds cloudy Saturday that are aboveboard. "When researchers enter an to gain power. Says Redding: "people cannot function Single copy: 25<t power is much more dangerous than the one who does organization," Redding adds, “ they commonly find successfully without power.” Power vacuums can be not. — See page 2 that informants have no difficulty identifying who far more dangerous than power centers, because the Every one of the above five statements is FALSE. wields power (actual power, not necessarily formal Hattrhpalpr Mm lh vacuums foster pettiness and back-stabbing. If These are trick questions indeed. As Purdue hubdling conflict. One obstacle to clean politics is the authority), they can generally describe a long list of everyone had clout. Redding suggests, the organiza­ University Professor Charles Redding observes in his myth that "nice guys finish last. As a result of political or power tactics known to be used in the tion probably would flourish. new book. "The Corporate Manager s Guide to Better perpetuating this myth, some individuals see company.” Communication" (Scott, Foresman), "Office politics themselves threatened and use self-preservation On "false" four: "Firing has become practically The higher up they go on the managerial ladder, the seems all loo often to be treated as the Victorians tactics." impossible in some of the major companies in this more dependent managers become on their treated sex: everybody knows it exists, but nobody On the second "false" statement; The manager who country. " Redding reports. Why? “ Becauseoften it’s employees. wants to talk about it in public."Slarting with the first fails to listen won't find out what's really going on just loo much trouble, and frequently it’s considered This statement is TR U E . "false" answer. Redding says "politics has become a within the organization. less expensive to keep the individual on the payroll The president of a company couldn't make it four-letter word, and that's unfortunate.” Clean "The best manager is not the slick-talking, clever than it is to contend with potential lawsuits, criticism, operate for 24 hours without an entire network of give-and-take bargaining is the most civilized way of Wood’s life is spared ma.ster of the snow job,” says Redding. "Above all bad press and employee resistance,” he explains. support systems. Redding notes. WEST HARTFORD (UPI) - The jury adopted .stepdaughter: and George .A loi "cou.M icmclcss or pitiless crimes that i # Business Utility owner ‘R O V E R ’ that convicted Steven J. Wood of four I'roie, tiis ex-wife’s boyfriend. arc iiiiiii i css.inly loruirmis to the i iclim murders Friday spared him from death, The jury found him insane when he killed ll.iiMim r S lid the jurors must decide the THE WEST’S JOBLESS but condemned him to spend his life in his ex-wife. Rosa Wood. 34, but convictisl defenilani ' i ie.iled a grave risk ofdealh to In Brief faces default prison for the shooting deaths of his him of capital felony murder, which carries others than I lie vrelim or I hat I he crime was cuts costs mother-in-law and stepdaughter. the possibility of the death penalty, in the eommiled m ,i heinous, eriu'l or depraved Purcell heads engineers U.S. is lowest in unemployment The six men and six women went into the murders of Mrs. Voli and Lis;i maimer" lo w.irraul Ihe death .seuleuec CONCORD, N.H. (UPI) — The fourth day of deliberation before deciding If the jury had decided Wood's capital liitlie closing ai giimeuls Monday, a stale James P. Purcell has been elected president of principal owner of the Seabrook mitigating factors surrounded the crime, felony crime merited the death sentence, he UNEMPLOYMENT 1984 of transit proseeiilor .isked lor the'death penally the Hiimden-based Connecticut Engineers in nuclear plant has warned it could go meaning Wood should not be given the would have become Ihe first person «hile Wood's l.iw jei ple.ided with the jury F’rivate Practice. into a $125 million default ifstate utility Great West United death penalty for the 1982 shooting. sentenced to death in Connecticut since the lo lei Wood lue mil his life in prison regulators fail to quickly approve the Purcell is chairman of the board and chief Italy Britain Canada France Germany States P H ILA D ELP H IA (U P I) - Some of The jury cited the mitigating factor of U.S. Supreme Court restored the death 'There ,ire crimes so lieiuous, so executive officer of Purcell Associates, an company’s plan to restructure its impared mental ability at the time of the penalty in 1976. grievous dial ea|iilal pimishment isiheouly debts. the nation's largest companies are organization of engineers, architects and using a computer program called murders. .loscph Taborsky was the last (lerson jiisl penally: ' .\ssi.sl.ini Si,lie's Alloruey planners based in Glastonbury. Projects de­ Attorneys and executives of Public Wood, 44. was convicted last month of executed in Ihe stale in I960. llerherl (i .\ppleloii lold Ihe jury Mr.s Voli Service Co. of New Hampshire — lead ROVER to fetch solutions to a complex signed by the firm have included the Oxford transportation problem. gunning down four people during a shooting Superior Court Judge Harry Hammer and l.is.i were "eseeiiled. ’ Applelou said, Airport, the Manchester Community College Seabrook owner with a 35.6 percent spree in West Hartford on April 17. 1982. read the definition of a cruel, heinous or % - ROVER, which stands for Real Time "lhal is Ihe idlimale olleiise " share — said Wednesday a delay in 10 classroom and administration building and Optimizer for Vehicle Routing, uses He was found guilty of murder in the depraved crime twice to Ihe jurors. Hartford's 1,400-car municipal garage. approving the complex restructuring colorful graphics and maps to plot the deaths of Patricia Voli, his former He explained the statutory |)hrasc plan could trigger a rush of creditor Earlier sliiry on page Purcell said engineers must meet increasing most efficient routes that fleets of mother-in-law; Lisa Wood, his 15-year-old "heinous, cruel or depraved " is rc.scrvcd challenges in the coming years. demands within 10 days. trucks should take to deliver goods. Structural failures in recent years point to an "And of course, we would not ha,ve the money to pay it,” Charles Bayless, Research on the router began in the ever increasing need for understanding on the 1970s at the University of Pennsylva­ part of owners of the necessity for total PSNH financial vice president, told the - >- nia’s Wharton School. Marshall Fisher, participation by the design profe.ssional in the state Public Utilities Commission. State discovers 5 % the program’sco-ereator and professor planning, design and construction pha.ses of a , Commissioners are expected to project," he said. continue hearings on the PSNH prop­ of decision sciences at Wharton, said in an interview. Connecticut Engineers in Private Practice was osal today to determine if it is in the Fisher and one of h is, (doctoral many problems founded in 1968 to promote ethics in the "public good” — a determination students refined the program while engineering profession, to protect public interest required by a recent New Hampshire ill engineering matters and to coordinate and Supreme Court decision. doing work for DuPont Co. and for Air advise regulatory and legislative bodies with Bay less said the plan was worked out Products and Chemicals Inc., of with MHS work respect to engineering matters. over three months of “ day and night” Allentown, Pa. Other companies expressed interest negotiations with some of the com­ .Source Council on Foreign Relations. Inc ) Bv Sarah E. Hall Dollar slips, gold rises pany's largest creditors and is "an NEA GRAPHIC in the program. So, in 1981 the pair Herald Reporter all-in or nonc-in” plan with each party The U.S. jobless rate is both the lowest and fastest-falling among Western formed a company.