Question - 5 staff members are Relatives

Submitted by philzs on Fri, 12/26/2014 - 15:19

Guys,

What do you respond to that question and why ?

You have just taken over a project from another project manager about 6 months into a 12-month project. As you get to know the staff on the project, you become aware that 5 staff members are relatives of the previous project manager. What do you do?

A. Notify your project stakeholders there is a possibility that nepotism was behind some of the staffing decisions made on your project.
B. Check recruitment records of all employees
C. Report the HR manager to PMI.
D. Interview these 5 employees

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aaryajeet

Sat, 12/27/2014 - 13:06

Answer D - Since it focus on the source of problem (5 employee)

A  cannot be an answer as its is just a possiblity of nepotism with no concrete Evidence

B  cannot be answer because you just need to check these 5 employee record

C : Cannot be answere as it doesn't make sense

philzs

Sat, 12/27/2014 - 20:45

This is waht I tought also but it is :

A. Notify your project stakeholders there is a possibility that nepotism was behind some of the staffing decisions made on your project.

anyone can help?

kniraj

Thu, 01/08/2015 - 04:08

The answer is A because - If there is a choice between notification to stakeholders and anything else we should select notification - since stakeholders have the right to immdly know regarding any issue.

Also since the earlier PM would have hired them and the question does not specific any worng doing by the 5 employees who have been hired - why would we want to interview them - what will we ask them.

Hence the best is to notify the stakeholders that during the hiring, the decision could have been done basis personal consideration.