Question

Direction: Read the following scenario and answer the THREE questions that follow.
Bharat Business School (BBS), a premier business school, was renowned for the quality education it provided. Its faculty, known for their domain area expertise and excellence in teaching, competed with each other for a better student feedback. Of late, the institute was finding it difficult to upgrade its course content with rapidly changing global business scenario. The difficulties multiplied when the school realized that some of senior faculty would retire on regular basis, starting in the near future. To overcome these difficulties, BBS decided to recruit young faculty in all the departments (e.g., Economics, Finance, Marketing, HRM, Production etc).
When the Dean - Academics scanned the applications, she found three distinct types of aspirants viz. (i) A type candidates who were very good teachers, competent at teaching the courses taught by existing faculty members; (ii) B type candidates who were average teachers, competent at creating and teaching new courses that would complement existing courses, taught by the current faculty; (iii) C type candidates were not-so-good teachers, willing to teach any course BBS required.
Note1: A course is termed complementary when it covers the latest content and complements existing courses offered by a department.
Note2: Each department decides the suite of courses to be offered.
Suppose the Dean-Academics wanted to ensure the most efficient utilization of faculty resources.
Which of the following hiring decisions will ensure the MOST efficient utilization of faculty resources?

• A. Hire A type candidates and let the new as well as existing faculty teach same courses
• B. Ask existing faculty to develop complementary courses
• C. Hire A type candidates, capable of developing complementary courses
• D. Hire B type candidates to teach complementary courses
• E. Hire C type candidates and assign them teaching-assistant responsibilities

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

Hire A type candidates, capable of developing complementary courses

Answer 2

Let's first understand what we mean by the most efficient utilisation of faculty resources. Efficient utilisation of resources will happen if the faculty members are able to teach the existing courses and also develop complementary courses, which is possible only if type A candidates, capable of developing complementary courses, are hired.

Hence, C is the correct answer.