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127．The vice president for human resources at Climpson Industries sent the following recommendation to the company's president.

"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."

装电子监控也许可以防止员工在上班期间使用因特网干私事与娱乐，但不能保证员工通过其他途径的私事和娱乐时间不会上升。
·减少干私事可以促进好的工作态度和效率。论者没有提供目前员工的工作态度如何，私事和娱乐是否已经影响到了他们的工作效果。但公司通过这种监测方式有可能引起员工的不满。
装电子监控的成本等没有提供。如果成本过大，或者带来不好的影响，反而得不偿失。
结论：没有资料证明目前员工的工作效率和态度已经影响到了公司的运行，检测的必要性未知。而监测的有效性也未知。论者应提供更多的资料。


133.The following is a memo from the principal of Academia High School.

"Academia High School should abolish its after-school performing-arts programs and replace them with computer-technology programs. When nearby Techno High School did so last year, total enrollment in all of its after-school activities remained about the same. Moreover, on entering college, many Techno students chose a major directly related to their after-school activities. On the other hand, last year only 10 percent of Academia's graduating seniors chose performing arts as their major field of study in their first year of college, clearly indicating that most students do not have a strong interest in the performing arts."

无法得出Academia High School学生对于表演艺术没有兴趣而对计算机有兴趣的结论。
即便如此，两校在师资、设备及学生等方面都有可能存在差异。不可做简单类比。
把学生在大学里的专业选择作为学生是否对各自的课后活动项目有兴趣没有说服力，明显偷换概念。
结论：在没有了解学生到底对什么感兴趣的情况下，是否要改变课后活动的内容，应该调查同学的兴趣，同时兼顾改变课后活动的可能性及效益。


156.The following is taken from an advertisement placed in a weekly business magazine by the Dickens Academy.

"We distributed a survey to senior management at International Mega-Publishing, Inc. The result of the survey clearly indicates that many employees were well prepared in business knowledge and computer skills, but lacked interpersonal skills to interact gracefully with customers. International Mega-Publishing decided to improve customer satisfaction by sending their newly hired employees to our one-day seminars. Since taking advantage of our program, International Mega-Publishing has seen a sharp increase in sales, an indication that the number of their disgruntled customers has declined significantly. Your company should hire Dickens and let us turn every employee into an ambassador for your company."

没有资料证明International Mega-Publishing, Inc.的新员工因为这项研究班而提升。
高层管理人员与新员工不等价。
International Mega-Publishing, Inc.公司的业绩上升可能不是因为研究班。有可能是其他原因。
即便因研究班使员工人际交往能力得到提升，其他公司是否需要这样的研究班以提高员工这方面的能力也未知。


178.The following appeared in the annual report from the president of the National Brush Company.

"In order to save money, we at the National Brush Company have decided to pay our employees for each brush they produce instead of for the time they spend producing brushes. We believe that this policy will lead to the production of more and better brushes, will allow us to reduce our staff size, and will enable the company factories to operate for fewer hours—resulting in savings on electricity and security costs. These changes will ensure that the best workers keep their jobs and that the company will earn a profit in the coming year."

方法是否适宜。过分强调数量可能会造成产量上升而质量下降。这样的话，效益会不升反降。
此外，如果过快操作，也有可能导致安全事故的发生。电费和保安费用的降低也难以保证。
做的最快的未必是做的最好的，以数量来衡量，未必能留下最好的员工，利润就更无从谈起了。

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127．The vice presidentfor human resources at Climpson Industries sent the following recommendation tothe company's president.

"In an effort to improve ouremployees' productivity, we should implement electronic monitoring ofemployees' Internet use from their workstations. Employees who use the Internetfrom their workstations need to be identified and punished if we are to reducethe number of work hours spent on personal or recreational activities, such asshopping or playing games. By installing software to detect employees' Internetuse on company computers, we can prevent employees from wasting time, foster abetter work ethic at Climpson, and improve our overall profits."

The argument is based on the assumptionthat electronic monitor can prevent employee wasting their time on personalbusiness, as a result, employee's productivity can be improved.
1) Not practical or fair: monitor cannotdistinguish personal business and occupational business exactly. (1) Need to go to shopping website to collectinfo (2) People can play game without internet (3) when the monitor mistakesthe result, people's working passion will be hurt.
2) Will have bad affect on employee's morale and loyalty. They are beingmonitor. Their boss does not trust them. Productivity could not be improved.
3) It is reasonable that employee hasrecreational time at work.
4) Work efficiency is more important thantime

133.The following is a memo from theprincipal of Academia High School.

"Academia High School should abolishits after-school performing-arts programs and replace them withcomputer-technology programs. When nearby Techno High School did so last year,total enrollment in all of its after-school activities remained about the same.Moreover, on entering college, many Techno students chose a major directlyrelated to their after-school activities. On the other hand, last year only 10percent of Academia's graduating seniors chose performing arts as their majorfield of study in their first year of college, clearly indicating that moststudents do not have a strong interest in the performing arts."

1) The same enrollment doesn't indicate thesuccess of computer-techno class in Techno High school. The students go therejust because of convention, or other benefit, but not due to interest.
2) Even if it succeeds in Techno High, itdoesn't necessary mean it will succeed in Academia High. Do they have the same qualityof teachers? The same equipment? The same background?
3) The major doesn't indicate one'sinterest. Student sometimes choose the major for job sake.

156.The following is taken from anadvertisement placed in a weekly business magazine by the Dickens Academy.

"We distributed a survey to seniormanagement at International Mega-Publishing, Inc. The result of the surveyclearly indicates that many employees were well prepared in business knowledgeand computer skills, but lacked interpersonal skills to interact gracefullywith customers. International Mega-Publishing decided to improve customersatisfaction by sending their newly hired employees to our one-day seminars.Since taking advantage of our program, International Mega-Publishing has seen asharp increase in sales, an indication that the number of their disgruntledcustomers has declined significantly. Your company should hire Dickens and letus turn every employee into an ambassador for your company."

1) The speaker overstates the effect: newlyhired employees won't be a big partition of the whole crew; They will not workin important position, how can they sharply increase the sales?
2) There are 2 kinds of new hiredemployees, new graduated, and experienced. both of them need this training?
3) The curriculumsare effective in Mega, but not bound to be effective in other companies.

178.The following appeared in the annualreport from the president of the National Brush Company.

"In order to save money, we at theNational Brush Company have decided to pay our employees for each brush theyproduce instead of for the time they spend producing brushes. We believe thatthis policy will lead to the production of more and better brushes, will allowus to reduce our staff size, and will enable the company factories to operatefor fewer hours—resulting in savings on electricity and security costs. Thesechanges will ensure that the best workers keep their jobs and that the companywill earn a profit in the coming year."

1) In order to be more productive, thequality could be ignored. So the brush will not be better.
2) In order to secure the job, employeesmay work extra hours and more work accident may happen. It may be impossible toreduce operational cost.
3) the keen competition will be harm toemployee's health and destroy the teamwork spirit. Employee may be unwilling toshare experience and destroy others' work