难易程度:★★★
题目题材:管理
GRE argument 127题目:
The vice president for human resources at Climpson Industries sent the following recommendation to the company's president.
"In an effort to improve our employees' productivity(1), we should implement electronic monitoring of employees' Internet use from their workstations. Employees who use the Internet from their workstations(3) need to be identified and punished if we are to reduce the number of work hours spent on personal or recreational activities(2), such as shopping or playing games(4). By installing software(6) to detect employees' Internet use on company computers, we can prevent employees from wasting time, foster a better work ethic(5) at Climpson, and improve our overall profits(7)."
提纲:
(1)The vice president fails to provide any information about current performance and productivity of our employees, thus the assumption that their productivity should be and could be improved is open to doubt.
(2)The vice president unfairly assumes that most of our employees use internet for personal or recreational activities.
(3)The vice president ignores the necessity for some employees to use the Internet in their work.
(4)Employees could still spend much time on personal or recreational activities even though the Internet access is banned.
(5)The vice president overlooks the negative effects of the proposed activity on employees’ morale, thus the better work ethic mentioned above is not guaranteed.
(6)The vice president fails to consider possible negative effects of installing such software on the performance of computers, and fails to provide the cost of installing the software.
(7)Since Climpson’s profits would be determined by many factors, adopting the proposal may not sufficiently ensure greater profits.
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