Each area's supervisors and leaders are hereby asked to supervise, disseminate and execute it to meet the regulation and requirements.

Is the above English correct?Thank you.

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Each area's supervisors and leaders are hereby asked to supervise, disseminate and execute it to meet the regulation and requirements.

Is the above English correct?Thank you.

waage_jens · Answer

It’s correct but it is not a communication that will encourage or convince employees to follow the instructions. Try to avoid officious phrases and instead soften your communication so that the reader is encouraged, not threatened.

> We ask the supervisors and leaders for each area to share the new plan and to guide teams in its implementation. Meeting regulations and requirements is necessary, and we are grateful to everyone as we work toward this goal.

InsertANameHere · Answer

Yes, the English is correct. I would end with "supervise" instead of "execute", because people have to start doing something before you can supervise it, but the English is grammatical.

InsertANameHere · Answer

@waage_jens It would in large part depend on the environment. Simple, matter-of-fact statements like that are quite common in many places (in both the military and in aviation, which I am or have been in, they were the norm), and it's not a particular requirement for professional messages to be especially polite.

waage_jens · Answer

@InsertANameHere I strongly disagree with you, with many decades of corporate communication experience as my education on the matter. Any person or corporation or government entity that puts forward communication that doesn’t consider that the target audience is composed of humans, is one that will raise the ire of its audience and discourage compliance.

InsertANameHere · Answer

@waage_jens Considering that both the military and aviation are places where very strict compliance is the norm, and both have these matter-of-fact communications as the norm, I don't see a particularly strong correlation with matter-of-fact official communications and non-compliance.

InsertANameHere · Answer

@waage_jens In fact, in some environments, you would actually run the risk of sounding insincere. Treating people like humans goes far beyond just adding gratuitous politeness to impersonal messages. If, for example, people feel that the company has been screwing them, then they might see such politeness as hypocritical, a shallow effort at pretending to care.

This is exacerbated by the fact that we're referring to mass communication. It's one thing for a supervisor to tell someone in person "I appreciate everything you're doing", but it's another when the message is simply adding words for the sake of politeness, without the reader having any reason to believe that it's anything more than that.

It's like how many essential workers have gotten fed up with the whole dialogue about being heroes, when their treatment beyond impersonal praise doesn't reflect it. At the end of the day, unless you're sure that your employees would think you're sincere about being grateful, then I would be careful about throwing that into every official communication. I definitely wouldn't criticize a matter-of-fact message simply on the basis of not being polite enough - it isn't like the original message is rude.

Each area's supervisors and leaders are hereby asked to supervise, disseminate and execute it to meet the regulation and requirements.Is the above English correct?Thank you. See a translation

Yes, the English is correct. I would end with "supervise" instead of "execute", because people have to start doing something before you can supervise it, but the English is grammatical.

@waage_jens Considering that both the military and aviation are places where very strict compliance is the norm, and both have these matter-of-fact communications as the norm, I don't see a particularly strong correlation with matter-of-fact official communications and non-compliance.

Each area's supervisors and leaders are hereby asked to supervise, disseminate and execute it to meet the regulation and requirements.

Is the above English correct?Thank you.

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