Twice a year, a large corporations salespeople meet up in a major city like Miami or San Francisco for sales conferences. Next Februarys meeting will be held in Santa Fe. Everyone in the organization is aware that the salespeople are treated to excellent hotels with amazing meals and fairly extravagant parties during these conferences. Back at headquarters, the rest of the employees feel some degree of resentment, and that emotion boiled over into outright anger today. You see, HR announced that the one party they get each yearthe annual holiday partyhas been canceled as a cost-saving measure. Which of the following is the most likely source of this conflict?

a) Competition for limited financial resources

b) Access to special benefits

c) Preferential treatment of one group over another

d) Differences in the sales managers personal power as opposed to other department heads personal power