Dear Tutor - Would you please help me with the below question:

Your department is hiring a senior manager to direct a group of strong and effective project managers who work on the company's high-visibility, customer-facing, strategic initiatives. It's important to find someone who can quickly ramp their knowledge of your company's customers, business partners, and product/service offerings. In addition to content expertise, the new hire should be a very strong leader, as he/she will be managing experienced project managers as well as assuming the helm on a couple of the enterprise's most complex and business-critical initiatives. It is also imperative that this new manager work well across multiple stakeholder functions within the company. To that end, you've assembled a crossfunctional panel representing 8 peer departments who have each interviewed the candidates and provided thorough feedback. Finally, it is worth noting that this is an expensive role, and the candidates vary pretty widely in terms of their current salaries. If you don't spend too much on this role, you'll have just enough slack in your budget to hire a half-time admin, which everyone else in the department really wants you to do - all feel the pain of printing, assembling, and binding proposals when there isn't someone whose job description encompasses that set of tasks. A summary of the qualifications and background information about 5 candidates is shown in the following table.

Please use this table and the "rating-and-weighting" approach (singlea ttribute value functions, swing weights) to identify the best candidate. Which candidate would you choose and why? Describe your approach.

Criteria Candidate A Candidate B Candidate C Candidate D Candidate E Industry 10 years at your Master's Degree 10 years in Worked for 5 years 4 years at the Experience main competitor; 4 that is exactly unrelated at your company in supplier of your years at your #1 targeted for your ndustries; 2 years a different most important customer field; 6 years as a at a mid-tier department 7 years component; 4 years sales rep serving competitor ago; has been in at a supplier of a your key customers unrelated field less important since but wants to component; 3 years return now at a reseller Leadership & A has led teams of B has led field sales Military background While working in E has had no more Management employees who are teams but has not coupled with the unrelated field, than three direct Experience lower-level than the managed an in- extensive study of D acquired reports at any time group here. He talks office team like the interpersonal extensive in the past a good game, but one in question psychology makes C management there aren't any an inspiring and experience at the data points to effective leader level above what suggest what he will whose Linked-In you're hiring for do account has dozens now of rave endorsements from past reports Feedback from Interviewers were Interviewers loved Interviewers did not Interviewers knew Interviewers were Cross-Functional very impressed with B's interpersonal favor C's unrelated of D's reputation encouraged by E's Group of A's knowledge of style and charm. background but did from his previous potential to Interviewers the competitive They rated her the note that as an work with the streamline landscape but best fit for the attractive and company and are operations and worried that he company's culture confident woman in very enthusiastic impact on the "toots his own a male-dominated about him as a bottom line. horn" a bit too field, she will easily result However, they are much receive attention worried about A's ability to be effective with customers Project Candidate A has a Candidate B has a While in the D has not formally E obtained a Management Black Belt in Six PMP certification military, C managed managed projects Master's degree in Expertise Sigma, but no PM projects and is very but is a very Project certification. A has proficient in the organized person Management at a run key parts of very relevant software, with extraordinary reputable large projects but systems, and attention to detail university by has not owned the processes attending evening management of an classes while fully entire project from employed start to finish Current Base $115,000 $107,500 $100,000 $130,000 $140,000 Salary Additional Data Candidate A is B is a woman who Candidate C is D has just been Candidate E's wife Points fluent in Mandarin was born in extremely bright accepted for a golf is sorority sister and conversational another country, and has membership at the and close friend of in Spanish; the and she would tremendous Country Club where your boss's wife company prioritizes improve your potential for growth the C-suites of 4 of global growth group's diversity if your top 5 you hired her customers play golf