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argu 34

The vice president of human resources at Climpson Industries sent the following recommendation to the company's president.
34. In an effort to improve our employees' productivity, we should implement electronic monitoring of employees' Internet use from their workstations. Employees who use the Internet from their workstations need to be identified and punished if we are to reduce the number of work hours spent on personal or recreational activities, such as shopping or playing games. By installing software to detect employees' Internet use on company computers, we can prevent employees from wasting time, foster a better work ethic at Climpson, and improve our overall profits.
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.


提纲：1.作者是建立在公司中存在员工上班时间上网购物玩游戏的现象的假设上的
      2. 假设2：员工不上网干其它的事就不会浪费时间，就会提高员工的生产力，这个假设不一定成立；提高员工的生产力有很多方式
      3. 作者没有考虑安装软件监控员工上网活动产生的负面效应，员工和公司之间产生不信任感，削弱员工对公司的归属感和忠诚度，从而降低员工的生产效率。

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In the argument above, the author recommended that the Climpson Industries should install software on company computers to detect the employees’ the Internet use in order to prevent employees from wasting time and improve the company’s overall profits. It seems at first glance to be an obvious conclusion to install the software. However, close scrutiny of the argument, rife with holes of assumptions, reveals the recommendation may not obtain the anticipated effect.


First and foremost, the author based on the assumption that in the company exist the phenomenon of the employees’ Internet use from their workstations for personal or recreational activities, which is obviously unwarranted. If the employees in the company do spend much time  on activities which impair prolificacy, then the company should and must take some measures. But if in the company all employees are industrious, or few waste their time on Internet, the recommendation would be unnecessary. Unless, the author are certain that the adverse phenomenon  is general, we have every reason to doubt the trustworthiness of the assumption.

Even if the assumption above is substantiated, the author still relies on another unpersuasive assumption—if the employees do not waste time on Internet, they would spend the additional time on something which makes sense to improve the company’s profits. For instance, they would dally time on chat, playing cards and so on. And there are many methods to improve the employees’ efficiency, such as launching an education program to help employees manage their working time or modulating the type of achievement examination, which also contribute to the profit improvement.

In addition, the assumption that installing software on the computers would not generate unexpected consequences is not considered, even though we accept all the foregoing assumptions. If the software may influence the normal operation of the computers so that it would diminish the working efficiency. Or if the employees assume themselves suspected by the company so as to weaken their ascription sense and loyalty to the company, which would, of course, reduces the employees’ activity and efficiency. All of these negative affection would lead to the recommendation functioning reversely. Without ruling out these negative factors the assumption is unconvincing.

As it stands, though the recommendation to install software on company computers is plausible to function in effect, it is on the basis on several unreasonable assumptions. To corroborate the argument, the author ought to justify that phenomenon of time dallying on Internet is prevalent in the company and the recommendation of implementing the software would not influence the normal operation of computers or the work ethic of employees. Additionally, Climpson would also consider other better ways to improve the overall profits.