You are surprised to receive Facebook and LinkedIn friend requests from a new employee who joined your organization two weeks ago. You know nothing about the individual and are really not interested in the individual. Your first reaction is to ignore the requests but you are concerned that you will keep running into the person at work and that the situation could become awkward. What would you do?

You are surprised to receive Facebook and LinkedIn friend requests from a new employee who joined your organization two weeks ago. You know nothing about the individual and are really not interested in the individual. Your first reaction is to ignore the requests but you are concerned that you will keep running into the person at work and that the situation could become awkward. What would you do?

Principles of Management

OER 2019th Edition

ISBN:9780998625768

Author:OpenStax

Publisher:OpenStax

Chapter16: Managerial Communication

Section16.2: Types Of Communications In Organizations

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