You are the manager of a publishing group of 20 employees. Your parent company is closing your organization and you must inform your employees that they are being laid off. While you will receive a bonus for staying on an additional two weeks, you will also be losing your job. Discuss the antecedent-focused strategies (situation selection, situation modification, attention deployment, cognitive change) and/or response-focused strategies (reappraisal, suppression) you would use to regulate your emotions and behavior in this situation. Which strategy or strategies do you believe would be most effective? Least effective? [Apply/Analyze/Evaluate]

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