How can managers efficiently control the grapevine in organizations?
A) By making false denials
B) By promoting the use of social media
C) By eliminating the grapevine
D) By ignoring inaccurate information
E) By maintaining open channels of communication

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In the recent years, there has been an increase in informal communication in organizations. One contributing factor is the recent increase in merger, acquisition, and takeover activity. Because such activity can greatly affect the people within an organization, it follows that they may spend more time talking about it.23 The second contributing factor is that as more and more corporations move facilities from inner cities to suburbs, employees tend to talk less and less to others outside the organization and more and more to one another.

How Can Managers Efficiently Control the Grapevine in Organizations