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employees What happens when employees have access to their company’s financial information over an intranet (a network inside the company)? The company grows. There was widespread fear and worry in our company when we decided to put all our financial information, including salaries, on our wide area network (WAN) in 1987 and then on our intranet in the early 90s. People feared our competitors would get the numbers and use them against us－to scare our customers, steal our employees, or attempt some other unimaginably horrible tricks. But that has never happened. And I don’t believe it will. Back in 1968, when I started my company, now an $11-million engineering-design firm, out of my house in Blacksburg, Virginia, my wife did the books. Later an employee took them over. As we added employees here and there, we saw no reason to keep any secrets. We just left the books open wherever they were last used. It wasn’t until a business writer told me, “Oh that’s what we call open-book management,” that I knew there was a name for what we did and that it was something unusual. As we grew and opened five branch offices－ three in Virginia, one in Tennessee, and one in North Carolina this casual system was no longer possible. But we knew we wanted to continue the open style. I can’t say we’re always more profitable because of OBM; we have the same ups and downs as our competitors. And I can’t say we are always happier; we have the same quarrels as in other workplaces. But we do have a great deal of trust here, and our employees stick with us. When we have tough financial times, our 170 employees know that nobody’s drawing off money from the company for private purposes and that they’ve got to make the pie bigger if they’re going to get a bigger price. The author adopted “open-book management” ______.
A .because of the increase of employees
B .according to the recommendation of a business writer
C .because of the big profits it would bring
D .without being aware of it
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