QUESTION 18 18 ) Business Mini Case : There is No Future Here! Please read the below Mini- Case, and answer ALL the following questions: "Could you come to my office for a minute, Bob?" asked Terry Geech, the plant manager. "Sure, be right there," said Bob Glemson. Bob was the plant's quality director . He had been with the company for four years. After his degree in mechanical engineering , he worked as a production supervisor and then maintenance supervisor prior to moving to his present job Bob thought he knew was about . " Your letter of resignation catches me by surprise , " be Terry . I know that Wilson Products will be getting a good person, but we sure need you here, too. I thought about it a lot, Bob said, but there just doesn't be a future for me here. "Why do you say that?" asked Terry. "Well," replied Bob, "the next position above mine is yours. Since you're only 39, I don't think that you'll be leaving soon." "The fact is that I am leaving soon," said Terry. . That's why it's even more of a shock to learn that you're resigning . I think I'll be moving to the corporate o June of next year. Besides, the company has several plants that are larger than this one, and we need good people in those plants from time to time, both in control and in general management. " " Well , I heard about an opening in the Cincinnati plant last year , " said Bob , but by the time I checked , the job had alr filled . We never know about opportunities in the other plants until we read about the incumbent in the company paper. * All this is beside the point now. W take to get you to change your mind ? "Asked Terry." I don't think I will change my mind now," replied Bob, "because I've given Wilson Products my word going to join them."

18.1 Evaluate the career planning and development program at this company.

what action might have prevented bob resignation