In this discussion board, you will read the section "What would you do? Unproductive Senior Manager" and then answer the questions below.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO? UNPRODUCTIVE SENIOR MANAGER After graduation, you obtain a job with a consulting comPBDY- Three years later, you are promoted to manage a team working on a large government contract. All hours worked are charged to the appropriate client contract and audited annually. Bill, a senior manager, has been assigned to your sevenmember team. Bill sacrificed and contributed a great deal during the company's early formation. Unfortunately, Bill has lost his enthusiasm and works slower than everyone else. His work ethic and abilities haVe declined over the past 2 years, and he's not keeping up with the latest technology. Officially, Bill has a "project manager" title, but he no longer manages details well. This is awkward because Bill has been with the company for 20 years and does not plan to retire for another 5 years. He is one of the company's highest-paid employees. and his salary is 195% charged to your government consulting contract. More and more, other team members must spend a greater amount of their time fin- ishing Bill's work and correcting his mistakes. His large salary has a significant negative ct on your budget, and his modest work efforts are detrimental to overall productqual- impa loyee be giventhe ity. From your perspective, you would rather that another, lesserpaid emp work that you've assigned to Bill and that Bill be transferred to another part of the company. When you meet with the senior leaders to discuss Bill's performance and your budget concerns, they seem to listen well. Senior leaders meet with Bill to discuss his insufficient contributions to the contract and encourage him to keep up to date and do more work. Bill promises to do so but does not follow up on his promises. You again assign Bill to manage a specific project on the government contract. After3 weeks, Bill is already floundering. You can let him fail and use his failure to document poor pe that he'll be removed from your team. Or you can do whatYOU'Ve performance with the ho nded team done in the past, which is to somehow reassign Bill's work to already overexte members to ensure that the work is done on time and with high quality