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Company Policy: Employees must maintain impartiality, especially in matters involving family. This requirement applies to all job aspects, including hiring, termination, and the quality of customer service provided.
Which of the following behaviors most clearly violates the company's impartiality policy?
A. Refusing to hire any of one’s five siblings for an open position, even though they are each more qualified than any other applicant.
B. Receiving over 100 complaints about the service provided by one’s office and sending a complimentary product to all complainants, including one’s mother.
C. Never firing a family member, even though three of one’s siblings work under one’s supervision and authority.
D. Repeatedly refusing to advance an employee, claiming that they have occasionally missed work and performed poorly, despite no such instances occurring for over two years.
E. Promoting a family member over another employee in the company.
Which of the following behaviors most clearly violates the company's impartiality policy?
A. Refusing to hire any of one’s five siblings for an open position, even though they are each more qualified than any other applicant.
B. Receiving over 100 complaints about the service provided by one’s office and sending a complimentary product to all complainants, including one’s mother.
C. Never firing a family member, even though three of one’s siblings work under one’s supervision and authority.
D. Repeatedly refusing to advance an employee, claiming that they have occasionally missed work and performed poorly, despite no such instances occurring for over two years.
E. Promoting a family member over another employee in the company.
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Company Policy: Employees must maintain impartiality, especially in matters involving family. This requirement applies to all job aspects, including hiring, termination, and the quality of customer service provided.
Which of the following behaviors most clearly violates the company's impartiality policy?
A. Refusing to hire any of one’s five siblings for an open position, even though they are each more qualified than any other applicant.
B. Receiving over 100 complaints about the service provided by one’s office and sending a complimentary product to all complainants, including one’s mother.
C. Never firing a family member, even though three of one’s siblings work under one’s supervision and authority.
D. Repeatedly refusing to advance an employee, claiming that they have occasionally missed work and performed poorly, despite no such instances occurring for over two years.
E. Promoting a family member over another employee in the company.
When you consider impartiality in the workplace and its relation to family members, nepotism likely comes to mind. You might expect the correct answer to involve unfair bias towards a family member. However, upon reviewing the answer choices, the actual violation of the policy may be counterintuitive.
According to the defined policy, not hiring a sibling who is more qualified than any other applicant is inherently unfair. Initially, you might be drawn to choices C or E, but their fairness isn't clear without more context.
For example, in choice C, the family members may have never committed actions justifying a firing.
Similarly, the family member in choice E might genuinely deserve the promotion.
Answer choice B, Including one's mother in a blanket policy applied equally to all complainants does not necessarily indicate a violation of impartiality.
Only choice A clearly presents a situation that breaches the policy, though it represents the scenario you might least expect to be problematic. This unexpected twist is a strategic use of common assumptions against the reader, emphasizing the complexity of applying anti-nepotism rules.
Answer: A
Company Policy: Employees must maintain impartiality, especially in matters involving family. This requirement applies to all job aspects, including hiring, termination, and the quality of customer service provided.
Which of the following behaviors most clearly violates the company's impartiality policy?
A. Refusing to hire any of one’s five siblings for an open position, even though they are each more qualified than any other applicant.
B. Receiving over 100 complaints about the service provided by one’s office and sending a complimentary product to all complainants, including one’s mother.
C. Never firing a family member, even though three of one’s siblings work under one’s supervision and authority.
D. Repeatedly refusing to advance an employee, claiming that they have occasionally missed work and performed poorly, despite no such instances occurring for over two years.
E. Promoting a family member over another employee in the company.
When you consider impartiality in the workplace and its relation to family members, nepotism likely comes to mind. You might expect the correct answer to involve unfair bias towards a family member. However, upon reviewing the answer choices, the actual violation of the policy may be counterintuitive.
According to the defined policy, not hiring a sibling who is more qualified than any other applicant is inherently unfair. Initially, you might be drawn to choices C or E, but their fairness isn't clear without more context.
For example, in choice C, the family members may have never committed actions justifying a firing.
Similarly, the family member in choice E might genuinely deserve the promotion.
Answer choice B, Including one's mother in a blanket policy applied equally to all complainants does not necessarily indicate a violation of impartiality.
Only choice A clearly presents a situation that breaches the policy, though it represents the scenario you might least expect to be problematic. This unexpected twist is a strategic use of common assumptions against the reader, emphasizing the complexity of applying anti-nepotism rules.
Answer: A
30 Nov 2022, 00:35
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Hi Bunuel,
Why is Option D incorrect?
Why is Option D incorrect?
