Your company is making a strategy shift: form being focused on fulfilling customer requests for becoming the best cost dairy producer in industry. Its existing cost manufacturing cost system, however fails to capture the costs associated with handling special flavors, small production orders, and complex delivery and order processing options. Hence you’ve been assigned to supervise an existing project to develop a new time-drive, activity-based costing system that will capture the full complexity of the company’s operations and gives managers new insights into the profitability orders, products, and customers. Senior management will use the information to enhance process efficiencies, negotiating new terms with customers, and attempt to win new business.
Unfortunately, you have very limited knowledge of this technical area. Fortunately, some of your project team members are highly technical, and hence you’ve decided to delegate most of the project management activities to them. Specifically, you have delegated schedule development, cost estimating, an assignment of project activities to your technical team members, while you serve as an occasional coordinator of project activities. Which of the following will be the MOST likely result of this arrangement?
A. Your project team will initially exhibit a high level of productivity, but performance and effectiveness will decrease as the project progresses
B. Your project team will exhibit low productivity levels, poor morale, and high levels of conflict throughout the project
C. Your project team will exhibit a high level of creativity, commitment, and productivity throughout the entire project
D. Your project team will exhibit low productivity levels throughout but will exhibit a strong team spirit and morale due to the shared nature of responsibilities
E. Your project team will initially exhibit a low level of productivity, but after an adjustment period, will exhibit high levels of effectiveness and cohesiveness
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