Article: The right way to handle rumours

Ang Seng Chai
New Straits Times
04-26-2003
The right way to handle rumours
Byline: Ang Seng Chai
Edition: Main/Lifestyle; 2*
Section: Appointments
Column: Q & A - People at work

ONLY a few are guilty, but everyone is punished. This cannot be right surely. It is not fair. It began when some rumours started to spread very quickly in the company. The managing director, of course, became very angry. He cannot be blamed.

The rumours also made everybody worried. Then a circular, signed by the managing director, was issued. In the circular was a warning to say that any employee caught spreading rumours in future would be punished in the most sternest way. Everybody knows what he meant. No one ...

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