单项选择题

"We are about to lay off approximately 300 well-qualified people in a broad range of engineering and support disciplines... If you are interested in reviewing the resumes of some of those affected, we invite you to send along a list of your requirements." This is part of a letter recently sent from a Philadelphia-based division of a General Electric (GE) company to 1,200 personnel managers across the United States. The GE division decided to lay off 300 professional and skilled workers because of decreased work contracts from government and private organizations. While GE could have simply laid off the workers, they also decided to help the workers get new jobs. Management developed a very comprehensive program "to help place its workers with other companies, to help them continue in jobs with other divisions of General Electric, or to begin entirely new careers." In addition to the mass mailings of letters to 1,200 nationally based personnel managers, other actions GE took were: 1) The following ad was placed in the New York Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer: "A message to corporate recruiters seeking people skilled in a different disciplines," the ad headline read. "We invite you to match your company’’s personnel needs to technical employees." 2) An employee placement representative was assigned to each "lack-of-work" employee to review his or her goals; help prepare a resume that best re-resented individual goals, talents, and experience; and provide assistance in seeking out and following through on employment opportunities. 3) Telephones were made available to all affected employees, and GE’’s rational dial-comm telephone network provided long-distance service. 4) Copies of local and major out-of-town newspapers and other sources of job openings were sup- plied to give the job hunters additional targets for resumes. We can conclude from the first paragraph that ________.