LESS COMMUNICATION HAS LEAD WATERSIDE IN TROUBLE

BUS 231(Section 7) Business Communication
Dipu Sangkar Biswas, ID: 2009-2-10-194
Journal 1, November 26, 2012

LESS COMMUNICATION HAS LEAD WATERSIDE IN TROUBLE

In February 1998 Mr. Karim who is Australian citizen but Bangladeshi origin, by revamping his business focused on the new area of student counseling and grooming who wanted to study in Australia. Waterside Counseling Group was registered was registered in Australia as a sole proprietor but its main operation center is in Dhaka. The name of this counseling organization is just same as big consulting firm in Australia. Waterside Counseling Group has a small representative branch in Australia. Waterside Group main function was to help students in application fill up and various stages they start for applying for different colleges.   Waterside Group gives money back guarantee for which they earned lots of profit but in trouble. Soon they operate outside Dhaka in Noakhali and Barisal. Mr. Karim is a faulty in Western International University (WIU). So he hired graduates to work there and also took Mr. Tarek Rahman as executive director. Mr. Rahman was supposed to give the Training and Management Consulting unit what was a new SBU and it was operated separately from the Waterside. Mr. Rahman was not a partner rather he was paid share of profit. Mr. Rahman was pleased with that. As all the employees were from the same background and the culture was just like the western ideals like he espoused was the egalitarian atmosphere so the environment was so fun-filled, cracking of jokes, birthday celebration and lunch together etc. The structure of organization was so highly unstructured and organic. Mr. Karim has a Charismatic personality and believed in team work and empowerment, but in Mr. Rahman felt that there was no real empowerment and Mr. Karim took many important decisions by himself. For this reason money was spent on different events when students demand the sponsorship what he did solely. Lunch was...