Shell Oil Company's Plan to Sink an Abandoned Offshore Oil-Storage

Shell Oil Company's plan to sink an abandoned offshore oil-storage buoy had a massive effect on employee motivation and recruitment. The number of qualified people applying for jobs at Shell plummeted, and many employees looked for positions in other companies. The plan caused much greater harm than Shell's managers had ever imagined it would. In other words, the plan had a much greater_____________ than predicted.

A) synergistic effect
B) impact proximity
C) concentration of synergy
D) magnitude of consequences
E) temporal munificence