A small company that manufactures special-order wood furniture has kept its employees busy on a 40-hour-a-week schedule for the past two years. The company just received the largest contract in its history from a Saudi company opening offices in the area. There is no expectation of repeat business from the Saudi company. In order to complete the contract in the required six months, additional skilled woodworking peoplepower is needed. Under these circumstances, to avoid an expected labor shortage, the best option would be:________. a. the use of temporary employees. b. turnover reduction. c. new external hires. d. overtime.

Due to the fact that the contract would only last 6 months and there's no expected repeat business from the Saudis or any one, the best course of action to take in order to avoid expected labour shortage is to use .

Overtime can be defined as a situation where the hours worked by an employee execeed normally scheduled working hours. In order to meet the 6 months and not cause labour shortage, the company can decide to use it's current workers for overtime and pay them for the overtime.