posted 14¾months ago by Illia
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Human Resource Management
While staffing a project in another country, the project leader from that country comes to you with a suggested team consisting of members of the project leader's family. Your FIRST course of action should be to:
A.inquire if hiring only through family lines is common practice in the project leader's country.
B.review the resumes of the individuals to see if they are qualified.
C.ask the project leader to provide additional names of people unrelated to him/her.
D.use a different project leader to prevent problems later in the project.
george (14½months ago):
I don't see any problem in hiring people from the family. Why not? Except one condition. They should be hired using a tender process. If this process was used the project leader will have a list of people who were not selected. We just ask him/her for this list. Answer: C
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