In order to meet new FAA safety requirements, the St. Louis downtown airport released a bid for the painting and reflective beading of its runway intersections as well as directional surface signage for parking at the gates. In addition to the new airport markings, all airfield workers involved in using the markings were required to be trained on the signage and what it meant. Based on your readings about visual communication, why is it important for the airfield workers to receive training on the new visual cues? a. Training of the airfield workers will allow supervisors to identify which ones learn faster and are best suited for additional responsibilities. b. The airfield workers need to be trained in order to bring more creativity and innovation skills to their jobs. c. The airfield workers need to know how to decode the visual markings because there are no written words to help them. d. The training of the airfield workers will reduce the chances they will leave and reduce the company's cost to replace them. Between 1908 and 1912, standardization of musical accompaniment in the U.S. film industry coincided with the transition of the viewing spaces to auditoriums. Theater owners hired better musicians, and viewers began to expect continuous musical accompaniment to go with the silent films. Eventually, film studios circulated cue sheets, a list of specific musical pieces for individual films. Some studios even began to provide the sheet music for the musicians to play. Based on your reading, why would film studios want to standardize the music that was played while showing their films? a. Standardizing the audio portion of a silent film gave moviegoers more value for their money, and they were willing to pay higher ticket prices. b. The coordination and standardization of audio with visual allowed the film's message to be more emotionally and effectively communicated. c. Standardizing music for silent films allowed the theater owners to better manage the musicians they hired. d. Ensuring that the music was standardized for silent films allowed the film studios to better relate to the audience. An employee at an advertising company developed an illness that put her in the hospital, and she was subsequently off from work for almost four weeks. After returning to work for a month, she developed another, unrelated, illness that landed her in the ICU, followed shortly by two surgeries to correct the health issue. She missed another two weeks of work during the second illness. During the time she was off, her teammates gladly covered her workload. However, three weeks after her return to work the second time, she was again absent for a week. During that time, she sent an email to some of her friends at work with a photo showing her relaxing on a beach in Mexico and stating, "Don't be jealous!" Inadvertently, she sent the email to one of her teammates who had done much of her work while she was gone. She meant to send it to someone else whose name was similar, and the software autofilled her teammate's address instead. Her teammate was quite unhappy and forwarded the email to their supervisor. Upon her return to work, the employee was called in her supervisor's office and, while she wasn't dismissed, she was reprimanded and lost a week's pay. Based on your reading, which of the following statements explains what the employee should have done to avoid this situation? a. The employee should have asked her friends at work to delete the message to the teammate.
b. The employee should have sent a follow-up message requesting that the message be destroyed.
c. The employee should have verified each email address before sending the message.
d. The employee should not have included an attachment in the email.