Question

Seo Yeon is a paid intern working for a small team of four software developers. Each member of the team is facing different deadlines and requires her support at different times—and all of them want to pawn their least enjoyable tasks off on her. Seo Yeon is there to learn and is happy to help out on any tasks they can give her, but she only has 40 hours per work week to offer.
Identify the solution that is likely to best allocate her time between the four team members.
A. Seo Yeon should only work on tasks that provide her with the opportunity to further her personal knowledge.
B. Seo Yeon should set up an internal market, allocating 10 hours per week to each team member and allowing them to trade hours among themselves over the course of a month.
C. Seo Yeon should determine which team member is most valuable to the company and allocate all 40 hours to that team member.
D. Seo Yeon should allocate 10 hours per week to each team member and ensure that her time is distributed fairly between the team members each week.

Answer 1

Answer: B. Seo Yeon should set up an internal market, allocating 10 hours per week to each team member and allowing them to trade hours among themselves over the course of a month.

Explanation:

From the options given in the question, the solution that is likely to best allocate her time between the four team members will be option B "Seo Yeon should set up an internal market, allocating 10 hours per week to each team member and allowing them to trade hours among themselves over the course of a month".

Since the teams have different deadlines, she should allocate her time equally to the four teams and help them out based on their deadlines as those with nearer deadlines should be helped first. We should also note that she shouldn't allocate the whole 40 hours to a particular team as that's not fair and can bring about disunity.