SCENARIO: Parker, a chartered accountant employed as a controller and living in
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SCENARIO: Parker, a chartered accountant employed as a controller and living in Calgary, was bored with his job. He applied to an Oshawa based software company that was advertising for chartered accountant to help in the development of new accounting software. At the job interview, Peterson, the manager of research and development, described the new venture and told Parker that the position would involve advising on accounting standards for many new products, addressing such thing as cash flow management, inventory controls, accounts receivables, and more. Parker was told that the company would commit significant funds to the project for the next 11 years. This position was the first of many accounting jobs. It was implied that Parker (if hired) would become senior management, supervising employees hired subsequently. Formal plans for this arrangement were not yet finalized by the executive committee but the plan was that it would be in place before Parker's start date of March 1. This was exactly the type of new challenge Parker was looking for, so when Peterson called to offer him the job of manager, financial standards, Parker accepted immediately. A few days later he received the employment contract by email, signed it and returned it by courier. The job description said that Parker would supply accounting expertise required by the employer Parker and his wife quit their jobs, sold their house in Calgary, bought a smaller, more expensive house in Oshawa, and moved across the country. When the executive committee met in April to consider the development plan, they decided the plan was too aggressive and approved only the development of one aspect cash-flow management. The project would be funded for only five months. Parker commenced work on May 1 and helped design the cash flow software. When he asked Peterson about the next phase, he was told that it was not yet going to proceed. No other accountants were hired and, after five months, Parker wa transferred to the accounting department to do typical controller work similar to his job in Calgary. He was unhappy with the transfer and quit.Explanation / Answer
1. In general an employer can or may change the Job description after an individual has been hired and this done in order to cater to the needs of the organization and there is generally no law that prohibits the organization from doing so. Some states may possess certain jurisdictions regarding the fairness of a deal and may look into the issue if required. Therefore there is generally no legal issue involved in the case.
2. The probable outcome is very much clear, this will not be considered as an unemployment because as conveyed the employer has provisions to change job descriptions after being employed, therefore no legal actions cannot be taken against the employer and there has been various instances like this and are still happening.
3. The state of the issue would not have changed even it would have been written but that would have been ethical because the employee would not have felt betrayed as he changed the organization because he was bored of his job and in the new organization too he is doing the same job.
4. This could have been treated more diligently and professionally because the only reason why Prince changed his organization was the type of work that he was doing and even here he is doing just the same work, during the recruitment he was promised a lot of prospect and an interesting field of work and for that he moved to a new city but his roles and responsibilities remain just the same it was previously. While recruitment it would have been better if such situation would have been discussed and Prince could have been conveyed that these things are not confirm and the project may or may not come. This would have at least made him aware that he may not get what he is expecting. The process could have been smooth.
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