As a small business owner, Tanika can't afford to provide her employees with the high wages and benefits offered by big corporations. One way to retain her employees and create a high level of motivation would be to:

A. constantly communicate with them that "at least they have a job."

B. adopt a policy of promoting workers who have been employed the longest.

C.empower her employees to develop their own ideas.

D. hire only family members, since they are more loyal.