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You are the manager of a publishing group of twenty employees. Your parent company is closing your organization and you must inform your employees that they are being laid off. You will receive a bonus for staying on an additional two weeks, but you'll 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? Explain, and be specific.