Select an appropriate message type (oral or written) and channel for each of the following situations. Justify your choices. a. Effective the first of next month, the cost of dependent coverage under your company’s group insurance policy will rise. Your task is to inform 300 employees who work at the three facilities in your city.

b. You want to invite the new manager in your division to have lunch with you today. The manager works on another floor of your building.

c. An employee you supervise has been named Volunteer of the Year in your community.

d. A sweater shown on page 6 of your company’s fall catalog is no longer available in green. You want to persuade those who order the item to select another colour.

e. The proposal that you have written must reach your client’s office by 3p. m. today. Your offices are in the same community.

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