Anne needs to stop talking to the personnel department and start talking to the CEO: tell him she needs authority to hire programmers without interference from

Anne needs to stop talking to the personnel department and start talking to the CEO: tell him she needs authority to hire programmers without interference from the personnel department, and that said interference is the reason his favorite projects are behind schedule. If he refuses, then she needs to either get on with her job with the people she has and accept that the schedule delays are not her fault and not her problem, or start looking for a job in a less dysfunctional company.