AkhilAggarwal wrote:
Is below line of reasoning correct?
In option A,it is possible that a single person is given the responsibility of more than 1 dept. ,in this way all vacancies can be filled.
For example there are 100 vacancies,and eligible employees are only 50.I can distribute 2 departments each to 50 employees.Thus,all 100 vacancies will be filled.
Not quite.
The argument gives us points why some vacancies will not be filled:
- The number of employees with the qualifications Vebrol will require for promotion to department head is equal to only half the expected vacancies.
- Vebrol is not going to hire department heads from outside the company,
- will not have current department heads take over more than one department,
- will not reduce the number of its departments.
These are the ways in which Vebrol could have filled up the dept heads positions but it will not.
Question stem: So some departments will be without department heads next year, since Vebrol will not_______
So we are looking for another point that covers a possible solution in which the vacancies can be filled up. We need what else will Vebrol not do which will lead to some depts being without heads.
A) promote more than one employee from any department to serve as heads of departments
This tells us that more than 1 employee will not be picked from a department. It doesn't add much to the argument. The argument already tells us that number of eligible employees is half of the required number.
So if heads of 10 depts are retiring, we have only 5 eligible employees. Which depts these employees belong to and whether they belong to same or all different depts is irrelevant. Option (A) tells us that from each dept at most 1 employee will be promoted to dept head. It doesn't give us another reason why some dept head vacancies will not be filled.
C) have any managers Who are currently senior to department heads serve as department heads
Correct. This tells us that Vebrol will not demote some of its seniors to dept head position so that's another way in which it could have filled in the dept head positions but will not.
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