goodyear2013 wrote:
Manager: Although our corporation lists office rules in an orientation booklet, few employees read the booklet carefully enough to familiarize themselves with all the rules. Lecturing employees for inadvertent rule violations often makes them resentful and less cooperative. Thus, to improve employee adherence to office rules, we plan to issue gentle reminders about various rules in each issue of our weekly newsletter.
Which of the following would it be most helpful to discover about the employees in the corporation in order to evaluate the likelihood that the plan will succeed?
(A) Whether most of them who are lectured for inadvertent rule violations are deterred from violating the same rule again
(B) Whether most of them who inadvertently violate office rules already feel resentful and uncooperative
(C) Whether most of them violate at least some office rules with which they are familiar
(D) Whether most of them who regularly read the weekly newsletter are familiar with at least some office rules
(E) Whether most of them would usually read with sufficient care the portions of the weekly newsletter that are reminders of rules
A Knowing how effective the lectures are does not indicate how effective reminders in the newsletter may be.
B The plan involves using the newsletter to remind employees about rules and thus to reduce the frequency of inadvertent rule violations. Even if we know that most employees who inadvertently violate office rules already feel resentful and unoooperative, we cannot conclude that they will not follow the office rules better once they become more aware of what the rules are. Neither can we conclude that they will follow the office rules better.
C Even if we know that most employees knowingly break one or two rules that they especially dislike, we cannot draw any conclusions about their level of rule-compliance if they become more aware of other rules.
D The existing level of rule-awareness among regular readers will not tell us whether the plan will increase that level of awareness, nor whether such an increased level of awareness would promote greater compliance or not.
E Correct. This addresses the issue of whether employees will read the newsletters' reminders carefully, as discussed above. If the answer is no, then the plan is likely to fail.
Hi, I came down to two choices which were (D) and correct answer. Then, I chose (D). Could anyone explain why it is wrong, please.
Lets use variance technique...
With "YES" or "NO" , infused in the argument , the conclusion should either get helped or get hurt.
The conclusion is :- to improve employee adherence to office rules, we plan to issue gentle reminders about various rules in each issue of our weekly newsletter.
Option A and option B are clearly irrelevant.
Option C , YES..most of them violate at least some office rules with which they are familiar.
Then the conclusion follows and gets HELPED.
NO...most of them DO NOT violate at least some office rules with which they are familiar.
That means they violate some rules with which they are not familiar.
Then the conclusion follows and gets HELPED.
So Option C is not the correct answer.
Option E , YES ..most of them would usually read with sufficient care the portions of the weekly newsletter that are reminders of rules.
Then the conclusion follows and gets HELPED.
NO....most of them would NOT usually read with sufficient care the portions of the weekly newsletter that are reminders of rules.
Then there is no point issuing gentle reminders of rules in each issue of our weekly newsletter.
Conclusion gets HURT.
Option E is the correct answer.
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