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ARGUMENT 241 - The following appeared in a memo at the XYZ company.
"When XYZ lays off employees, it pays Delany Personnel Firm to offer those employees assistance in creating resumés and developing interviewing skills, if they so desire. Laid-off employees have benefited greatly from Delany's services: last year those who used Delany found jobs much more quickly than did those who did not. Recently, it has been proposed that we use the less-expensive Walsh Personnel Firm in place of Delany. This would be a mistake because eight years ago, when XYZ was using Walsh, only half of the workers we laid off at that time found jobs within a year. Moreover, Delany is clearly superior, as evidenced by its bigger staff and larger number of branch offices. After all, last year Delany's clients took an average of six months to find jobs, whereas Walsh's clients took nine."
字数:464 用时:0:30:00 日期:2007-3-31
The argument is not cogent when the arguer concluded that use less-expensive Walsh Personnel Firm in place of Delany is a mistake, since the evidence cited to support it is untenable. There are many reasons which I will discuss as following.
To begin with, the arguer draw his conclusion based on the assumption that the employees can benefit from the assistance in creating resume and developing interviewing skills so that they may find another job more easily, however, it may be not necessarily the case. We may think the personnel firm realy be of use just looking from the number: those who used Delany found jobs much quicker than did those who did not. But alternative explanation may be that the persons who used the personnel firm is the ones who have more responsibility, caring more about their career life and at the same time they are competitive workers, so we cannot say it is the personnel firm made them easier to find a new job, instead of they own capanility.
Indeed, the arguer compared the Walsh with Delany in an incomparable situation which cannot lead to objective result. Maybe it is true that the Walsh did not help so much as we expected, only half of the workers we laid off at that time found jobs within a year. But it is quiet possible that it was not the fault of Walsh, possible explanation of that is during a time of economic depressing, the downsize was so popular at that time that it is hard for a man laid off find a new job, while it might be quiet a good job of Walsh for helping half of the workers we laid off find another job. Indeed, the arguer did not provide info about the Delany's working in that time, consequently we cannot take the view of Walsh is not good compared with Delany as granted. Furthermore, the arguer's claim that Delany is clearly superior for it has bigger staff and larger number of branch office has the same problem Perhaps the Walsh has likely large scale of employment and similar working condition now, which never seem no good than Delany. More or less the bigger staff and larger number of banch office maybe can not mean efficient working to a personnel Firm. And the condition of last year of the two firms does not indicate that the Delany is superior to Walsh also, since their clients may have such a different level in education and technical skill and the job aims of them are different also which cannot be compared so easily only by how long it take to find a job.
In summary, the author is arbitrary to make such an assertion but fails to provide enough evidence to support it. |
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