Africanus Industries and Mawuli Institute have recently merged into Africanus M. Ghana Ltd becoming one of the most powerful Public Companies in the Petrol Chemical Sector in the whole of Sika Krom the first independent State in the Sahel Sahara Region, with a staff strength of about 250 employees across all the departments within the company that has branches all over Sika Krom and beyond although, they do not pay the Social Security of their employees who are less than 3 years in their employment, they also have a policy that does not allow women to go on maternity leave in the first 2 years of joining the company and also does not allow their employees to join or form any trade union whiles in their employment.

Kingkosoko the Chief Operating officer recently decided that there was the need to strategically reposition the organisation and he therefore sent an email to Mishio and Associates Inc. requesting for them to supply Africanus M. Ghana Ltd with 6 new Toyota Hiace Buses that is intended to solve the issue of staff transportation to and from their various offices. When confronted by the Director of finance Dr. Ahiaku (aka Headmaster) in respect of the rather opaque method adopted in procuring the buses, his response was that he was the boss man and could therefore do as he desired without being questioned in spite of the fact that they are a public corporation.

A memo was sent round the organisation inviting members of staff to attend a durbar that was intended to clarify the position of the organisation to help the employees move swiftly in achieving their mission. Just before the commencement of the meeting, Scarvey the head of quality control in the company noticed that a fork lift truck and a pay loader had been left unattended to at the entrance of the conference hall. Instead of getting one of the drivers of the company to move these, he decided to save time by hurriedly getting into the pay loader to move same. He drove the pay loader straight into the shed that was behind them injuring Redeemer S. and J. Fiawoli who were resting under the shed in order to attend the durbar in due course.

The durbar began on time and most members of staff were there present and in high spirits. Dzikunu F. noticed that Molly one of the employees had arrived and he immediately rushed to welcome her, saying to her that she still looked and remained very sumptuous and sweet with very kissable lips. Rory also noticed her coming to the durbar and sent her a text message on her phone stating how curvy and sexy her calves had become and how he wished to sample her. Upon the receipt of the message, Molly spoke with Raymond also a member of staff registering her displeasure and indicating how terrified she was with the comments from both guys and wanted to find out from Raymond what to do about this?

At the tail end of the meeting, Prince, Livingstone, Bimbo and Shaabo were tasked to put together a team of negotiators who would lead the delegation to meet with European partners all in the name of expanding the business. Even before their first meeting, Shaabo was of the view that it was going to be difficult to put the team together in that short period they had been given and therefore he was not going to be part of the team as he was certain that the mission was impossible requesting for further and better particulars in respect of what goes into the constitution of a negotiation team and the bottlenecks associated with a successful negotiation.

Mr. Akorli and Mr. Kokoroko who are all members of the Governing Board of the Company have been tasked to examine the issues above and highlight the liabilities of the people if any in the above situation and also establish whether or not there are remedies that may have accrued to the members of staff. They have invited you as a second year MBA student at the prestigious UGBS to examine and discuss the matters arising as you proffer possible remedies that may be available to the parties with the help of the law and decided cases if any (60 marks).