Rolando, a senior employee, has been asked to monitor the activities of some new employees and report to her if he finds them engaged in activities that are not work related. He finds them spending far too much time on social networking sites. However, instead of reporting this, he advises the new employees to refrain from using those sites in the future. Moreover, he tells Alexa that they were doing their work effectively. In this scenario, Rolando has engaged in
A) encoding.
B) encrypting.
C) social loafing.
D) bootlegging.
E) filtering.

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Rolando has engaged in filtering, which involves manipulating information by withholding, ignoring, or distorting it before it is passed on to others. In this case, he chose not to report the new employees' misuse of time and instead presented a more favorable report to Alexa.

Rolando, a Senior Employee, Has Been Asked to Monitor the Activities