A global enterprise is experiencing an economic downturn and is rapidly losing market share. IT senior management is reassessing the core activities of the business, including IT, and the associated resource implications. Management has decided to focus on its local market and to close international operations. A critical issue from a resource management perspective is to retain the most capable staff. This is BEST achieved by:

A. reviewing current goals-based performance appraisals across the enterprise.
B. retaining capable staff exclusively from the local market.
C. ranking employees across the enterprise based on length of service.
D. ranking employees across the enterprise based on their compensation.