"Flo" of Communication (Scenario)
Recently the employees of Chatterbox Enterprises, Inc., received a letter from the vice president ofoperations explaining that a new production facility would be built in Chatland City, AL. It was alsostated that about one-fourth of the employees from the current Chatland City facility would betransferred to the new facility and if employees wanted to volunteer for the transfer, they could doso by meeting the human resource manager and filling out a request form. Sam, a productionsupervisor, first went to Florence, the purchasing manager, who had already volunteered to transfer,to discuss with her the possibility of becoming her inventory control supervisor at the new facility.Florence told Sam that Ruth, the current inventory control supervisor, would not be transferring andthat she would consider his request.
【題組】35. The letter from the vice president to the employees is an example of which type oforganizational communication?
(A)horizontal
(B)lateral
(C)formal
(D) informal