A Writer's Company Has Just Adopted a Policy of Tracking

question 8

Multiple Choice

A writer's company has just adopted a policy of tracking employee emails to determine which employee is leaking confidential information. Because the writer knows that this policy will be unpopular with company employees, which is the best strategy for announcing the policy to employees in a memorandum?

• A) Present the reasoning behind the new policy and then state the policy.
• B) State the policy and then provide the reasoning.
• C) State only the new policy.
• D) State the reasoning behind the new policy and then state the policy in a follow-up memorandum.

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