Martin,the New Training Director for Bosco Bay Resources,has Spent Months

Multiple Choice

Martin,the new training director for Bosco Bay Resources,has spent months conducting cost-benefit analyses of the existing training programs at Bosco Bay.One of the long-standing training programs is an outdoor training program that is extremely popular with employees at all levels of the hierarchy.It involves company teams spending a week training on a 150-foot sailing yacht and sailing in a yacht race.This is an expensive program and being selected for the program is intensely valued.Although the program is intended to develop teamwork and sharpen decision-making skills,Martin can find no evidence that employees who have taken part in the sailing experience have higher productivity or that their departments as a whole have higher productivity.Employees at Bosco Bay have high morale,and the employees who have gone on the sailing expedition are no more satisfied with their jobs than the other employees.Martin needs to be able to justify the training budget to the executive committee.What is Martin's best choice among the following options?

A) Devise some way to quantify the popularity of the program so that the popularity can be viewed as a benefit that offsets the costs.
B) Propose that the sailing training be recharacterized as a management perk. This gets it off the training budget, but preserves the program for managers.
C) Redesign the sailing program so that it will be more likely to provide quantifiable productivity benefits in the future.
D) Leave the program in place and cut less popular training programs, even if they provide quantifiable benefits. Eliminating the program will damage employee morale.