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Case study No.3 |
The branch manager of one of the Hungarian based international companies happened to be a woman. She was successful, enjoyed her work and she and her colleagues made up a very good team. Time passed by and Judith wanted to have a child. But what about her job? She did not want to give it up because she was at the peak of her carrier and found it improbable to find another job with similar challenges after the performance of all duties accompanying motherhood.
What did she do? She decided that in case the child was born healthy, she would go back to her work as soon as possible. She agreed with her superior that already in the second month following birth giving she would go back to work for a few hours daily, and later, from the fourth month on, she would continue working as before. In order to be able to do so, she asked for the help of the grandparents, hired a nanny, etc.
When her time came, she rushed to the hospital from her working place, and from her bed in the maternity ward she still made some official telephone calls that could not wait. Everything happened as it was planned. Judith gave birth to a healthy little girl, and, already in the fourth month following birth giving, she focused solely on her work again and worked with full blast.
Few years later, when she learned that she could have hired an interim manager for substituting her in the job of branch manager, she was really upset. She confessed that she had missed a very important experience of life; she did not spend enough time with her baby to see how her intelligence develops and could not give her as much motherly attention and care as the little new-comer would have deserved.
'If I hired an interim manager I could have been sure that I would not lose my job. The contracts of interim managers are concluded for a definite period of time and for a definite task. Besides, if I myself selected the interim manager, I would have taken great care to chose a good expert of the trade, someone good enough not to make our customers feel my absence.
Next time, instead of a nanny, I will look for an interim manager' - she said.
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