$18$

Scenario C

Fun, Incorporated, a major gaming software company, is experiencing conflict between the young Internet$-$savvy employees who design the games and the older, less computer$-$literate executives who run the company. The company has hired team leaders who could work with the executives and who are also highly computer literate.

By hiring these team leaders as liaisons between the executives and employees, the company will

Select one:

a$.$ increase conflict between developers and executives by reducing communication.

b$.$ reduce conflict by clarifying rules and procedures.

c$.$ increase conflict by increasing task interdependence.

d$.$ reduce conflict by creating superordinate goals.

e$.$ reduce conflict by reducing task interdependence.