Primary Question:

What are the advantages and disadvantages for an individual who accepts a job as a human resource manager in a firm that is in the midst of a retrenchment corporate strategy and a reactor business strategy?

Second Question:

What are your personal feelings about how to prioritize individual employees in a situation where the organization is being acquired in a merger, and your supervisor has instructed you to retain the best employees, but give preference to employees of the controlling organization? What ethical considerations must be made here? What strategy would you employ to this directive?