Jessica,a team leader at Hifenac Corp.,has portrayed her managerial skills by successfully motivating each of her team members to perform exceedingly well.The exceptional performance of her team prompts the management to increase her team size and assign her new projects.Soon,however,management observes that this additional responsibility adversely affects Jessica's performance and the productivity of the new team is not as impressive.Which of the following is most similar to the scenario discussed above?
A) Laura convinces her management to hire more people for her team so that they can reduce their project turnaround time.
B) Workers at a brewery are subjected to loss of pay for uninformed absence. This eventually reduces absenteeism and improves production.
C) A sales manager with a good past sales record is assigned a larger sales territory. However, he fails to deliver as expected.
D) Declining productivity at one of its plants caused the Sigma Group to hire Dan Wilkinson as the new production manager on account of his excellent performance record. Dan is, however, unable to improve the plant's performance.

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Option C is most similar to the scenario described in the question. Just like how Jessica was successful in leading a small team, the sales manager discussed in option C had a good past sales record. However, just like Jessica, when the sales manager's sales territory was expanded, he failed to deliver as expected. Both scenarios involve a situation where success with a smaller set of responsibilities does not necessarily translate to success with an increased workload. Options A and B are not relevant to the scenario described in the question, and option D involves a different context altogether.

Jessica,a Team Leader at Hifenac Corp