Oliver 175 - 102nd Question

[purav.d.shah]

As a project manager you can assign any one of two team members to a highly coveted task. Both are equally capable, but one of them is a member of your in-group. To the other one, you have far more distance. How should you behave?

o You disclose the situation to stakeholders and solicit a joint decision.
o You take the person not in your in-group to avoid misunderstandings.
o Chose the in-group person. The trustful relation will benefit the project.
o You delegate the decision to a third team member to avoid the conflict.

What should be answer and why?

[manishpn]

As a project manager you can assign any one of two team members to a highly coveted task. Both are equally capable, but one of them is a member of your in-group. To the other one, you have far more distance. How should you behave?

o You disclose the situation to stakeholders and solicit a joint decision.
o You take the person not in your in-group to avoid misunderstandings.
o Chose the in-group person. The trustful relation will benefit the project.
o You delegate the decision to a third team member to avoid the conflict.

What should be answer and why?

in group is a sociology term, not generally used in PMP
As a PM you have to be unbiased and as per the question the PM will have Bias towards the in group person, so to avoid any bias , its better to disclose this to stakeholder and seek joint decision.
Option #4 is not good as delegating to someone may not always be an unbiased decision.

This is my take on the question and I am not 100% sure if the option is indeed right one