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A significant number of Qualitex Corporation’s department heads are due to retire this year. The number of employees other than current department heads who could take on the position of department head is equal to only about half of the expected vacancies. Qualitex is not going to hire department heads from outside the company or have current department heads take over more than one department, so some departments will be without department heads next year unless Qualitex ______.
(A) promotes some current department heads to higher-level managerial positions
(B) raises the salary for department heads
(C) reduces the number of new employees it hires next year
(D) reduces the average number of employees per department
(E) reduces the number of its departments
(A) promotes some current department heads to higher-level managerial positions
(B) raises the salary for department heads
(C) reduces the number of new employees it hires next year
(D) reduces the average number of employees per department
(E) reduces the number of its departments
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We essentially need to find how the Company will not have to extend one department head over multiple departments.
A: No. Dheads will still retire. No gurantee.
B: Same reasoning as in A. No gurantee.
C: reducing employees will not do anything. Still too many departments and not enough Dheads.
D: same reasoning as C. still more departments than Dheads.
E: best answer. Says Dheads will equal departments.
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A significant number of Qualitex Corporation’s department heads = N
are due to retire this year. = N is decreasing , but we need to keep N constant by adding values to it !!! let us assume that X person left so we need to add X to make it N
The number of employees other than current department heads
who could take on the position of department head is equal to only about half of
the expected vacancies. - the number available to be added is only X/2, we have to compensate the rest.
Oualitex is not going to hire department heads from
outside the company or have current department heads take over more than one
department,- X/2 cannot be increased from outside source.
this is the problem : now lets see the answer choice, what can be done to compensate the decrease
A - irrelevant
B - irrelevant, the heads are retiring not leaving because their compensation is low
C - Oualitex is not going to hire department heads from
outside the company or have current department heads take over more than one
department - this is a company policy so cannot be changed,
even if it hired it wont solve the problem at hand.
D - irrelevant
E - yes !!! it is it
from the above understanding :
N department ---- N heads...( this is decreasing to N - X )
now if we decrease the number of departments the problem will be solved !!
N-X departments ---- N-X heads
Hence, E is correct.
are due to retire this year. = N is decreasing , but we need to keep N constant by adding values to it !!! let us assume that X person left so we need to add X to make it N
The number of employees other than current department heads
who could take on the position of department head is equal to only about half of
the expected vacancies. - the number available to be added is only X/2, we have to compensate the rest.
Oualitex is not going to hire department heads from
outside the company or have current department heads take over more than one
department,- X/2 cannot be increased from outside source.
this is the problem : now lets see the answer choice, what can be done to compensate the decrease
A - irrelevant
B - irrelevant, the heads are retiring not leaving because their compensation is low
C - Oualitex is not going to hire department heads from
outside the company or have current department heads take over more than one
department - this is a company policy so cannot be changed,
even if it hired it wont solve the problem at hand.
D - irrelevant
E - yes !!! it is it
from the above understanding :
N department ---- N heads...( this is decreasing to N - X )
now if we decrease the number of departments the problem will be solved !!
N-X departments ---- N-X heads
Hence, E is correct.
