Quickie Designs Inc. uses teams in the manufacture of lightweight wheelchairs. Two features of its team approach are team hiring and peer reviews. Under team hiring, the team recruits, interviews, and hires new team members from within the organization. Using peer reviews, the team evaluates each member of the team with regard to quality, knowledge, teamwork, goal performance, attendance, and safety. These reviews provide feedback to the team member for improvement.

Using these two team approaches rather than managers to hire and evaluate employees have all the following advantages except:

a.With a team approach, the input of many individuals goes into the hiring decision and brings a variety of viewpoints.

b.Team-based hiring can produce a higher probability of having an effective team member by having a good fit.

c.The peer evaluation may be more effective than the supervisor evaluation, since the team may be more familiar with the team.

d.Team-based evaluation practices increase employee involvement.

e.Employee empowerment and job satisfaction will likely decrease with a team approach because it is more time consuming