Through various strategies, Company X creates an environment in which employees develop a strong sense of organizational identity. The company has been making a profit and generally doing well. However, growth has been slow lately, so in order to improve quarterly earnings reports and keep shareholders happy, the company lays off 10% of its workforce. From a critical perspective, this situation is problematic because the company actively promotes a sense of identification while ______.
A) treating employees as valuable commodities
B) giving the remaining employees more central power
C) distorting the role of work in employees' lives
D) creating a stronger social factory

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The situation is problematic because the company promotes a strong organizational identity but then undermines this by laying off employees, which can distort the role of work in employees' lives by showing that their sense of belonging and identity is not reciprocated by job security.

Through Various Strategies, Company X Creates an Environment in Which