Question: Case 2 - Suggestion Awards. A young engineer, on active duty in the military, tries to eliminate a base that is purchased with every gyroscope.

Case 2 - Suggestion Awards. A young engineer, on
Case 2 - Suggestion Awards. A young engineer, on active duty in the military, tries to eliminate a base that is purchased with every gyroscope. The base allows for quick disconnect/connect. The gyroscope is used in three different aircraft, the base is used in only one of the three. That one aircraft is no longer in production so bases are no longer needed. The other two airframe manufacturers just store them. They can neither dispose of them nor return them to the government. The "system" will not allow the engineer to delete the base from the specification. He then submits a "suggestion" through the formal Suggestion System. The engineer receives a call from a staff member in the office that handles suggestions. Military suggestors cannot receive monetary awards, so the staff member suggests that the officer add a civil service engineer to the suggestion with the arrangement that the civil service engineer split the monetary award which he is entitled to with the officer. The annual savings for suggestion amounted to $100,000 per year in 1963 dollars. The top award the officer can receive is dinner for two at the officer's club. What should the officer do

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