THE PRIMA DONNABen was placed in charge of a one-year project. Several of the work packages had to beaccomplished by the Mechanical Engineering Department and required three people to beassigned full time for the duration of the project. When the project was originally proposed, theMechanical Engineering Department manager estimated that he would assign three of his grade 7employees to do the job. Unfortunately, the start date of the project was delayed by three monthsand the department manager was forced to assign the resources he planned to use on anotherproject. The resources that would be available for Ben's project at the new starting date were twograde 6s and a grade 9.The department manager assured Ben that these three employees could adequately perform therequired work and that Ben would have these three employees full-time for the duration of theproject. Furthermore, if any problems occurred, the department manager made it clear to Benthat he personally would get involved to make sure that the work packages and deliverables werecompleted correctly.Ben did not know any of the three employees personally. But since a grade 9 was considered asenior subject matter expert pay grade, Ben made the grade 9 the lead engineer representing hisdepartment on Ben's