Question

Rubbermaid allows employees to spend a percentage of their working time on special projects. Imagine that, as a manager for Rubbermaid, you have the difficult job of choosing employees for your project team. You have limited positions, and because your team is among the most celebrated at the company, you have more volunteers than roles available. What is the best way to control the conflict?

a. Expand the number of teams or the number of team positions available.
b. Hire an external consultant to pick new team members for you.
c. Make prospective team members compete for the spots by running errands for you and current team members.
d. Avoid talking to employees who want to volunteer for one of your teams.

Answer 1

b. Hire an external consultant to pick new team members for you.

Step-by-step explanation:

The most appropriate option, analyzing the scenario above, would be to hire an external consultant to choose new team members for you, due to the fact that there is difficulty in choosing the qualification of the team and the volunteers who applied for the positions, so an external consultant could take this decision based on adequate parameters and less supported by biased behaviors that could favor some more volunteer by affinity or another issue that was not purely professional. In this way, a fairer, less conflicting and appropriate contracting would occur for everyone in the organization.