Amachine that miguel works on has ceased to function. even though his manager would be able to him, miguel fears informing his manager and decides to solve the problem himself. miguel's act illustrates a common organizational communication problem referred to as shielding. insubordination. negative instrumentality. filtering. information bombardment.

The correct answer is filtering. It is because some of the employees are not open minded and are not open with their bosses by which allows filtering occurs by which the individual are likely share only good news with their boss and suppress the news that are considered be bad because of the fact that they would want to appear competent to their bosses or to show mistrust to their boss. In addition, they fear of what their boss may find out about them, causing them to acquire punishment. Based on the scenario above, this is what Miguel is doing as he didn’t inform his manager regarding the problem.