Response E-Mail: Reaching Consensus Regarding Casual-Dress Policy E-Mail Team Casual dress in professional offices has been coming under attack. Your boss, Joshua Watkins, received the e-mail shown in on page 186. He thinks it would be a good assignment for his group of management trainees to help him respond to that message. He asks your team to research answers to the first five questions in CEO Timothy Vander beck's message. He doesn't expect you to answer the final question, but any information you can supply to the first questions would help him shape a response. Vanderbeck & Associates is a public CPA firm with a staff of 120 CPAs, bookkeepers, managers, and support personnel. Located in downtown Pittsburgh, the plush offices in One Oxford Center overlook the Allegheny River and the North Shore. The firm performs general accounting and audit services as well as tax planning and preparation. Accountants visit clients in the field and also entertain them in the downtown office.

Task:- Decide whether the entire team will research each question in or whether team members will be assigned certain questions. Collect information, discuss it, and reach consensus on what you will report to Mr. Watkins. Write a concise, one-page response from your team. Your goal is to inform, not persuade. Remember that you represent management, not students or employees.