Through Various Strategies, Company X Creates an Environment in Which

question 36

Multiple Choice

Through various strategies, Company X creates an environment in which employees develop a strong sense of organizational identity. The company has been making a profit and generally doing well. However, growth has been slow lately, so in order to improve quarterly earnings reports and keep shareholders happy, the company lays off 10% of its workforce. From a critical perspective, this situation is problematic because the company actively promotes a sense of identification while ______.

• A) treating employees as valuable commodities
• B) giving the remaining employees more central power
• C) distorting the role of work in employees' lives
• D) creating a stronger social factory

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