TRANSLATE?
1. Enclosed please find our response pursuant to your inquiry of Wednesday last. We
hereby advise you, as per your request, that we will be forwarding said refund in due
course under separate cover.
2. After some mistaken reports earlier, we want you to be aware of this:
Company X’s dividend rate is 25 cents a share per quarter ($1.00 a share annually) for
all common and class B shares. In accordance with past practice, we declared the
regular dividends for both the second and the third quarters during the second quarter,
but only the dividend for the second quarter was paid in the second quarter (see Note 8
to our recently filed 10Q). The dividend rate remains at 25 cents a share per quarter.
3. I will be conducting an investigation into the matter of the missing lunches that have
disappeared from the company refrigerator. I have discussed this with the heads of all
the departments and have found them to be in agreement about the particular course of
action we should be taking.
Although this does not rise to the level of a crisis situation, the concern expressed by
employees is more than understandable. When employees state they are of the opinion
that there is no respect for their personal belongings, I understand fully what they are
saying. Therefore, I will be talking to each employee individually, in confidence, to
determine their involvement in this matter. In view of the fact that we are coming up to
September, our busiest month, I realize this matter should be dealt with quickly. I hope
the end result will be a cessation of stealing.
STAKEHOLDER EXERCISE
Imagine that you are the PR person for a nonprofit organization that would like to open
up a small shelter for homeless people in a neighborhood in Boston. You want to start
by making a list of all the stakeholders you have to keep in mind. Who would be on
that list?