As the General Manager occupied his coveted chair, he witnessed an outrageously turbulent scene in the meeting. The Purchase Officer and Works Manager, at loggerheads with each other right from the word ‘go’, made the General Manager feel why in the first place he had called both in a meeting considering the fact that there was mutual animosity for each other. Both of the officers breathing fire, it became difficult for each item in the agenda. He tried to intervene but in vain. Both the Purchase Officer and Works Manager were charging in, firing on all cylinders. The General Manager was in utter dismay. Once he even tried to impose his authority by speaking vituperative words but both the officers in duel were least bothered. With every minute passing, the precious time getting lost without much fruitful discussion, the General Manager wondered how to bring these two recalcitrant subordinates under his control. What he lacked most was the authority; he searched for a symbolic gavel that decides the judge’s authority in a court. But he was not a judge. He was a managing engineer—an engineer with managerial responsibilities. But as things went on in the meeting, it appeared that his [201 words]
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