The Career and Success - Case Study Example

Tony asks how they reached having their own company and the narrator explains that both Kenny and Norton played various sports - baseball, basketball, football. They knew each other since high school and kept their relationship through college and after that stayed family friends. Both of them were married, had families and kids. When in their 40s Norton (radio-television marketing and promotion manager) and Kenny (a structural engineer for an auto manufacturer) decided to give their childhood dream another try and opened their own company.

The business started as a sporting equipment store and used equipment swap, for children in middle or high school, because their children were at that age. Tony and Bobby ask themselves what will be their occupation when they reach the crisis of the 40s. Tony replies that maybe he will be still working for the same company Team Fun, as he likes people and the kind of work that he is doing. Bobby says that maybe he will be the owner of the company, because he knows how to turn into a more profitable business, cutting the costs and franchising. 1. In my opinion, we can group the four characters into four categories.

For Tony, the career and success mean that he is happy with what he got so far. He does not need to develop his skills or progress into a different field of knowledge. Bobby and Norton, on the other hand, seem to share similar views about career development and success. Norton is happy when he wins big money and Bobby wants to own his father-in-law company because he knows how to increase the profit margin. Kenny is down to earth man, rather enjoying and accepting life and career as it is, pursuing his happiness, but only if it is fun.2. Most probably started his career as a Human Resources assistant.

Presumably, he graduated with a similar specialty and how he is a director of the HR department of the company. Bobby is very ambitious, we may guess that he tried to be the first supervisor in various industries until he found the most suitable area for career development. We do not know for sure whether he was made the manager of the new store in Florida, because of his abilities or because he is the son-in-law of Kenny, the owner. Regardless of this, his ultimate goal is to own the company that he is currently working for.

Kenny's career as a radio-television marketing and promotion manager was quite successful, though he pursued his dream to start a sports equipment store. Norton was an engineer for an auto manufacturing company, with large salaries, privileges, and commitment. Though he liked winning by himself and ended up as co-owner of Team Fun.3. Since Tony's desire for a career is to stay in the Human Resources field, Kenny and Norton can send him off to seminars discussing organizational behavior, current human resources management practices, successful personal motivation in order to stimulate this interest in this area and to make him more successful.

Bobby would be interested in attending courses focusing on financial control, franchising and making a profit. Kenny and Norton can also allocate him to different stores to see how well he is managing when the atmosphere has changed and whether he can adapt quickly. This will help Bobby in succeeding as an owner of the company later on.