Business Consultant:
Some corporations shun the use of executive titles because they fear that the use of titles indicating position in the corporation tends to inhibit communication up and down the corporate hierarchy. Since an executive who uses a title is treated with more respect by outsiders, however, use of a title can facilitate an executive’s dealings with external businesses. Clearly,
corporations should adopt the compromise of encouraging their executives to use their corporate titles externally but not internally, since even if it is widely known that the corporation’s executives use titles outside their organization, this knowledge does not by itself inhibit communication within the corporation.
In the consultant’s reasoning, the two portions in
boldface play which of the following roles?
A. The first describes a strategy that has been adopted to avoid a certain problem; the second expresses the consultant’s assessment of the significance of that problem.
B. The first describes a strategy that has been adopted to avoid a certain problem; the second is a judgment that the consultant uses to argue that the strategy is ineffective.
C. The first describes a strategy that has a drawback that the consultant points out; the second presents a strategy that, according to the consultant, would achieve the same end while avoiding that drawback.
D. The first describes a practice for which the consultant seeks to provide a justification; the second is a consideration offered as part of that justification.
E. The first describes a policy that the consultant concludes is misguided; the second is introduced to explain why that policy was adopted.
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