Directions: Answer the questions after each situation.1.David Aquino, engineering director, started out the day uptight. His young childhad the flu the night before, and he had been up all night to help. Upon arrival at hisoffice, David had to make urgent phone calls to approve a two-week overtime work plandue to a plant fire the night before and to plan for a product committee meeting the nextday to counter environmental concerns about a wastewater treatment plant.Then he spent 30 minutes reviewing the qualifications of new candidates anddecided on one. He asked for salary information and wanted to examine the offer beforeit was sent. He asked for further justification for the budget requested by industrialengineering for a minicomputer. Without reading it, he approved the research proposalfrom material engineering. He rejected an invitation to speak at a regional meeting of thePhilippine Society of Mechanical Engineers by giving an untrue reason.David made a note for the United International Corporation board meetingcoming up soon. At 10:00 a.m., he met with two consultants for 1 hour and 45 minuteson a formal wage and salary plan and then directed his administrative assistant to workout the details. He promised to inform all department heads and asked for cooperation.As he walked back to his office after lunch, David noticed several engineers werestill playing bridge after 1:30 p.m., and he planned to remind their department heads ofthis truancy from work.As soon as he walked into his office after lunch, George Mendoza, the generalsales manager, called to complain about inadequate responses from engineering to fieldsales requests. David promised to look into it after receiving specific details. In return, heasked for Mendoza's support at the product committee meeting the next day.David gave a retirement plaque to Jose Reyes in his own office in the presence ofthe personnel director at 1:45 p.m. Furthermore, he approved the request of twoengineers for a week of overtime to design a new, final quality control station.At 2:00 p.m., he was asked to attend a three-hour budget meeting at 3:00 p.m. called bythe president. In the meeting, guidelines and a timetable for next year's budget requestswere discussed. For engineering, he was told there would be an increase of only 10%. Hethen arranged for a meeting with the president and the controller at 2:00 p.m. the nextday to request more money.As he was about to leave for the day around 6:30 p.m., his wife called to say thathis child is doing all right, but he has to go to the party of the executive vice presidentalone.What do you see are David Aquino's problems? How do you suggest improving his day?

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From the above case the issues recognized are
• Absence of defining Boundaries
• Absence of Time…