Your Team Has Experienced an Increase in Absenteeism in the Past

Multiple Choice

Your team has experienced an increase in absenteeism in the past six weeks. In the meeting to define the problem, George recommends that personal leave days be abolished. The group ignores that suggestion but instead decides to fire all employees who are absent starting Monday. What went wrong in the decision-making process?

A) The first acceptable solution was accepted.
B) The problem was stated as part of the solution.
C) The problem was stated too explicitly.
D) The information about the problem was based on speculation.