Dew drops factory for bottled water was established several years ago, and during this period the factory was flourishing and developing at a normal level and within the growth rates of similar factories, and in one of the meetings of the board of directors of the factory it was decided to appoint Mahmoud as the general manager of the factory in an effort to increase the growth rate further by increasing sales and profits. Mahmoud started his work and after a month of taking office, he noticed that the factory needed to appoint a number of new employees and workers to increase the volume of production, and accordingly Mahmoud contacted the production manager and asked him to determine the number of employees and workers required to increase production, so the production manager replied that the problem is not in the number of workers, but in the machines used that need to be developed and renewed, Mahmoud did not care about the point of view of the production manager and communicated Directly with the Director of Human Resources to ask him to appoint 20 workers very urgently and within one week, Mahmoud was surprised that the company had appointed 15 new workers two months ago, and the Director of Human Resources told him that a week is not enough to appoint this number of workers and that the process of recruitment and recruitment is not done in this way, and despite that Mahmoud insisted on that and through the powers he has appointed 20 A new worker, where he published an advertisement on social networking sites and interviewed by phone quickly, and the new workers began their work within a week, after two months the board of directors began to notice a decline in sales volume and an increase in costs continuously, and the factory achieved a significant loss in the following six months, which led to the dismissal of Mahmoud from his position as the first decision taken by the board of directors to correct the situation.

The first question : From your point of view, did Mahmoud rush to make the decision to increase the workers, and was a month enough for Mahmoud to be able to assess the situation correctly and accurately? 3 degrees

The second question: Through your study of the Principles of Management 2 course, what is the leadership style followed by Mahmoud, explaining this through the case study with mentioning the characteristics of this style? 4 degrees

Third question: Through your study of the Principles of Management 2 course, how is the process of determining the required number of employees? What are the steps that are followed when recruiting and selecting employees? 8 degrees