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Director of Ace Manufacturing Company: Our management consultant propo
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Director of Ace Manufacturing Company: Our management consultant proposes that we reassign staff so that all employees are doing both what they like to do and what they do well. This, she says, will “increase productivity by fully exploiting our available resources.” But Ace Manufacturing has a long-standing commitment to not exploit its workers. Therefore, implementing her recommendations would cause us to violate our own policy.
The director’s argument for rejecting the management consultant’s proposal is most vulnerable to criticism on which one of the following grounds?
A. failing to distinguish two distinct senses of a key term
B. attempting to defend an action on the ground that it is frequently carried out
C. defining a term by pointing to an atypical example of something to which the term applies
D. drawing a conclusion that simply restates one of the premises of the argument
E. calling something by a less offensive term than the term that is usually used to name that thing
The director’s argument for rejecting the management consultant’s proposal is most vulnerable to criticism on which one of the following grounds?
A. failing to distinguish two distinct senses of a key term
B. attempting to defend an action on the ground that it is frequently carried out
C. defining a term by pointing to an atypical example of something to which the term applies
D. drawing a conclusion that simply restates one of the premises of the argument
E. calling something by a less offensive term than the term that is usually used to name that thing
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08 Jun 2017, 05:00
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This is clearly a failure to distinguish two different usages of a same word 'exploit'.
Ace Manufacturing has a long standing commitment to not exploit its workers - here 'exploit' clearly means making unfair use of, or taking advantage of.
But when the director wants to reassign staff so that staff is doing what they like to do and do it well - its going to make the staff happy. Here 'exploiting' resources would mean making proper use of and deriving benefit from, not in an unfair way. Rather its going to give them job satisfaction.
Hence A answer. Other options are nowhere close
Ace Manufacturing has a long standing commitment to not exploit its workers - here 'exploit' clearly means making unfair use of, or taking advantage of.
But when the director wants to reassign staff so that staff is doing what they like to do and do it well - its going to make the staff happy. Here 'exploiting' resources would mean making proper use of and deriving benefit from, not in an unfair way. Rather its going to give them job satisfaction.
Hence A answer. Other options are nowhere close
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Re: Director of Ace Manufacturing Company: Our management consultant propo
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08 Dec 2018, 01:46
A. failing to distinguish two distinct senses of a key term - CORRECT
B. attempting to defend an action on the ground that it is frequently carried out
C. defining a term by pointing to an atypical example of something to which the term applies
D. drawing a conclusion that simply restates one of the premises of the argument
E. calling something by a less offensive term than the term that is usually used to name that thing
A : exploitation - key term
B. attempting to defend an action on the ground that it is frequently carried out
C. defining a term by pointing to an atypical example of something to which the term applies
D. drawing a conclusion that simply restates one of the premises of the argument
E. calling something by a less offensive term than the term that is usually used to name that thing
A : exploitation - key term
Re: Director of Ace Manufacturing Company: Our management consultant propo
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08 Dec 2018, 03:25
08 Dec 2018, 03:25
OA:A
The director failed to distinguish two distinct senses of a key term "exploit"
1)make full use of and derive benefit from (a resource).
2)make use of (a situation) in a way considered unfair or underhand.
The director failed to distinguish two distinct senses of a key term "exploit"
1)make full use of and derive benefit from (a resource).
2)make use of (a situation) in a way considered unfair or underhand.
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24 Oct 2019, 18:38
Princ wrote:
OA:A
The director failed to distinguish two distinct senses of a key term "exploit"
1)make full use of and derive benefit from (a resource).
2)make use of (a situation) in a way considered unfair or underhand.
The director failed to distinguish two distinct senses of a key term "exploit"
1)make full use of and derive benefit from (a resource).
2)make use of (a situation) in a way considered unfair or underhand.
Well, I thought exploit can only be used in a negative context and marked E.
These 2 meanings will make A as the straight winner.
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Re: Director of Ace Manufacturing Company: Our management consultant propo
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17 Apr 2020, 23:10
17 Apr 2020, 23:10
gmathunk wrote:
Director of Ace Manufacturing Company: Our management consultant proposes that we reassign staff so that all employees are doing both what they like to do and what they do well. This, she says, will “increase productivity by fully exploiting our available resources.” But Ace Manufacturing has a long-standing commitment to not exploit its workers. Therefore, implementing her recommendations would cause us to violate our own policy.
The director’s argument for rejecting the management consultant’s proposal is most vulnerable to criticism on which one of the following grounds?
A. failing to distinguish two distinct senses of a key term
B. attempting to defend an action on the ground that it is frequently carried out
C. defining a term by pointing to an atypical example of something to which the term applies
D. drawing a conclusion that simply restates one of the premises of the argument
E. calling something by a less offensive term than the term that is usually used to name that thing
The director’s argument for rejecting the management consultant’s proposal is most vulnerable to criticism on which one of the following grounds?
A. failing to distinguish two distinct senses of a key term
B. attempting to defend an action on the ground that it is frequently carried out
C. defining a term by pointing to an atypical example of something to which the term applies
D. drawing a conclusion that simply restates one of the premises of the argument
E. calling something by a less offensive term than the term that is usually used to name that thing
I totally understand this reasoning comes from LSAT; however, does any of GMAT reasoning have similar concept with abstract answers choices like this one?
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