Marlene Has Been an Editorial Assistant at a Small Trade

Multiple Choice

Marlene has been an editorial assistant at a small trade publisher for two years. When an associate editor position opens up on her team, she applies for the position and gets it. What is one issue the company will have as a result of promoting Marlene into this new position?

A) The company will have to deal with the higher costs of hiring a current employee to fill this new position.
B) The company will have to deal with lowered employee morale among the other editorial assistants.
C) The company will have to train Marlene on the company processes more than they would have to train a more qualified external candidate.
D) The company will be forced to create more associate editor openings to motivate the remaining editorial assistants.
E) The company will have to fill Marlene's vacant editorial assistant position.