A U.S. company and an Indian company are working together on a technology venture. A meeting is scheduled for Monday so that a prototype of the new system can be demonstrated. Unfortunately the prototype may not be completed by then.
-One of the U.S. employees working on the project is asked whether or not the prototype will be ready. Which of the following is most likely to be the way in which this employee would deliver the bad-news message?

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C) In the United States and many other western business cultures, people tend to communicate bad news explicitly. They may soften the bad news by using a buffer or subordinating it, but at some point in the message they will state the bad news. This is the only choice that does so.

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