Capital One invites employees to work on special projects during hackathons. Employees can explore new technologies, rapidly push development forward, or just expand their network to include more colleagues interested in innovation. There$$s always the possibility that more employees want to participate in the hackathon than there are roles available. If you were a hackathon team manager, how could you best address the conflict created by having more volunteers than open roles?

Eliminate conflict by avoiding the volunteers.

Control conflict by expanding the resource base.

Stimulate conflict by making volunteers compete for the available roles.

Eliminate conflict by assigning volunteers to another project team.