Understanding Business
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Author: William Nickels
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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You are the supervisor of a department of ten people. You’ve noticed that office supplies are being reordered quite frequently in the last year…more than double what you ordered last year, yet you haven’t hired more employees in that time. Working late one night, you notice one of your employees leaving the office supply room with several reams of photocopy paper and a box of pens. She leaves the supply room and heads straight to her car, with the supplies. What should you do?
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