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17 May 2024, 01:30
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During this fiscal year, Company X has suffered a marked decrease in productivity. Company managers attribute this to budget decisions that allocated more money to pay freelancers than to pay part-time employees, which resulted in the elimination of numerous part-time positions. The freelance budget has gone mostly to new hires,who have less training, on average, than part-timers and it would take a substantial time to train the freelancers.
Assuming that the managers’ reasoning is sound, which of the following, if feasible, is most likely to mitigate the problem raised by the managers?
A. Increasing the work hours of the remaining part-time employees.
B. Providing performance bonuses for managers whose departments demonstrate increased productivity.
C. Reallocating part of the freelance budget to pay for efficiency consultants.
D. Rehiring former part-time workers as freelancers.
E. Eliminating departments with particularly low productivity.
Assuming that the managers’ reasoning is sound, which of the following, if feasible, is most likely to mitigate the problem raised by the managers?
A. Increasing the work hours of the remaining part-time employees.
B. Providing performance bonuses for managers whose departments demonstrate increased productivity.
C. Reallocating part of the freelance budget to pay for efficiency consultants.
D. Rehiring former part-time workers as freelancers.
E. Eliminating departments with particularly low productivity.
02 Jun 2024, 06:45
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KAPLAN OFFICIAL SOLUTION:
Correct Choice: (D)
Since the change resulted in a loss of productivity,we can infer that the part-time employees were more productive than the freelancers who were hired in their place. A reasonable solution, then, is to rehire those productive part-timers as freelancers. They’ll still be the same productive employees. They’ll simply be paid differently.
Choice (A) sounds reasonable until we consider that we don’t know the number of remaining part-time employees. There may be so few compared to former numbers that increasing the hours won’t significantly affect productivity.
Choices (B) and (C) seem like good ideas, but neither option is indicated by the information in the passage. There is no evidence that the managers are not already sufficiently motivated or that the advice of efficiency experts is needed.
Choice (E) might be efficient, but having fewer total employees is certainly not likely to increase productivity.
23 Oct 2025, 00:09
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