When considering HR strategies regarding employee separations, managers must consider:

• A. whether to use layoffs or voluntary inducements to downsize a firm.
• B. whether to empower supervisors to make hiring decisions.
• C. whether to encourage decentralization or centralization of the firm to better enhance employee relations.
• D. whether to compensate long-term employees more than recent hires.
• E. whether to create rigid job descriptions in order to keep the responsibilities of managers and their subordinates from becoming interrelated.