You are a manager for a solar-panel company and you have to decide which of your sellers to internally promote to 2 available managerial positions. Your company's board is suggesting that any employee producing at least $5'000'000 in sales should be promoted. This recommendation is based on statistics that show that - in good times - at most 2 employees per year have reached this threshold in the past. However, you have just heard in the news that the federal government may decide to cancel any tax break related to purchasing and installing solar panels for residential buildings starting 2020. Do you want to keep the board's recommendation, or change the design of the promotion scheme?

Answers:

A-You may want to change the promotion scheme, because it is based on a quality standard which depends on current business/market conditions, and with the change in government policy, it may be that no employee would be able to get a promotion

B-You may want to change the promotion scheme, because it is based on a relative standard, which is not influenced by current business/market conditions

C-You may want to change the promotion scheme, because it may induce the workers putting effort to sabotage their rivals

D-You may want to keep the promotion scheme, because it does not depend on current macroeconomic conditions