Information control is a crucial point in keeping the management system up and running. It is through it that important company information is recorded, such as the context of the organization or the records of nonconformities. In addition to helping managers better organize their documents and reference them much more accurately and with certainty, information control will explicitly manipulate other people's access to critical work issues in order to change their attitudes and/or behavior.
It's a hard choice between A and D, but I think A leans more closely to the answer. The whole point of the Articles of Confederation was trying to make a unifying Union while keeping the states' independence.