Read the Trust Your Gut Case Study (located in Course Information) and:

1. Describe the situation and the key players (their roles and relationship to each other)

2. Identify why this case study is related to the Political Frame and defend your position.

3. How you would have addressed the conflict if you were the CEO of the organization?

Trust Your Gut or Go with the Flow? 1 Conventionality is not morality. Charlotte Bront ________________________________________________________________________ You were hired on a fourthree vote and I wasnt one of the four an obviously agitated mayor told the newly appointed city manager. Youve got 6 months to prove yourself, and if you dont, you will be fired, he added emphatically. Fresh out of graduate school and slated to be the youngest city manager in the state, Jack Ellis was excited, nonetheless, with his appointment to the position with the city of Woodside. With an elected mayor, clerk, treasurer, and four aldermen, Ellis was only the second manager of Woodside and its first professional one. The previous manager had a background in auto sales. He was a friend of three-term Mayor Marvin Morris, who had essentially run the city for the past 6 years. The mayor had a hand-picked replacement lined up for the departing manager (who had resigned for unknown reasons) in the form of the deputy police chief, Bob Collins. Morris and the former manager 1 Thompson and Leidlein. Ethics in City Hall.: Discussion and Analysis for Public Administration. Sudbury, MA. Jones and Bartlett. ((2009)