Your department is undergoing severe cutbacks. You are trying to manage it as best you can and have asked a few employees to join a committee to discuss layoffs and the best process for handling them. One particular employee dislikes you and has convinced the others that this committee is nothing more than a feel good exercise. Now, none of the others will join. You believe it is in their best interest to be a part of the decision-making process on something that will affect them greatly. You decide to talk to the employee who got the others stirred up.