You have been recently hired to be a project manager at a bio-tech company to develop anew drug to treat pancreatic cancer. The project requires significant coordination across multiple departments from R&D to manufacturing.
You’ve attempt to gain the cooperation of chief scientist (who reports to the V.P. of R&D) within the R&D department. You need her assistance to answer some questions regarding the clinical testing process of this new drug. However, the chief scientist is un-interested in your project and provides little or no feed back to your questions. Since your project is NOT one of her priorities, she’s been rather unresponsive to your questions. What should you do in this situation?
A. Inform the VP of R&D of the performance issues. Establish the expectations of the chief scientist by communicating to your project requirements to the VP of R&D. cooperation from the VP of R&D is necessary in order to ensure performance from the chief scientist
B. Clearly define and establish the chief scientist duties and communicate to her that you re expecting him to meet expectations. Inform the chief scientist of the impact on lost customers and declining company revenues if she misses her deadlines.
C. Communicate to the chief scientist that you’ll be reporting her performance to the VP of R&D at the completion of the project.
D. Negotiate with the VP of R&D to establish expectations of the chief scientist and request to participate ion the chief scientist’s annual performance review
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