The long-time employees of Keyser Ltd. have not met a sales goal for the past six months. You are hired by the CEO to come in and analyze why the employees in her organization are falling short of expectations. Based on the authors' discussion of systems, what recommendation for maintaining the health of an organization would you make to the CEO?
A) Introduce new perspectives to challenge employees' thinking on how to reach the sales goals.
B) Layoff all employees who have been with the company for more than 15 years.
C) Offer monetary rewards or additional time off for achieve their monthly goals.
D) Raise the degree of instability in the organization by randomly changing rules and policies.

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Introducing new perspectives can help to challenge employees' thinking and potentially lead to innovative solutions for reaching sales goals. This can help to maintain the health of the organization by keeping it adaptable and open to change. The other options, such as laying off long-time employees, offering rewards, or randomly changing rules and policies may have negative impacts on employee morale and the stability of the organization.

The Long-Time Employees of Keyser Ltd