In this situation, the project manager and top managers are heatedly discussing their concerns about going over the expected budget and falling behind the time schedule. This discussion indicates conflict as it arises when the goals, interests, or values of different individuals or groups are incompatible and those individual or groups block or thwart one another's attempts to achieve their objectives.

Intergroup-organisational conflict.

Explanation:

Intergroup Conflict - refers to the overt expressions of hostility between groups and intentional interference with each other's activities.

Causes of intergroup conflict includes;

• Coordination of Work -the most common source of intergroup conflict among several different departments.

*. Sequential Task Interdependence

*Task Interdependence - the amount of reliance a work group has to put on other organizational units to complete its projects.

Here we see that the cause of the conflict is a task coordination deadline set.

d we did this already

c is the correct answer!