Due to the declining budget, the school board needed to make some difficult cuts and asked that there be cooperation among the board. Even though many board members disagreed with certain proposals, each one met with unanimous support or defeat. To preserve cooperation, no one offered conflicting proposals or viewpoints. This example best describes

d. "Shoot the messenger" management exists, implying a lack of control

Explanation:

The approach of "shoot the messenger" implies that the management of a company tend to blame the bearer of bad news as if they are responsible for the bad occurrence.

This approach causes tension and lack of communication in the workplace as employees are afraid of communicating when something bad happens.

Management is supposed to look objectively at the situation, identify the party that is responsible for the failure, and work towards rectifying it.

This is the situation in the scenario where Matilda received an e-mail from an angry client about a certain product and she hesitated to report it to her manager because she knew that he had a tendency to unfairly blame people for things