All too often, companies hire outside consultants to suggest ways for the company to operate more efficiently. If companies were to spend more time listening to their own employees, such consultants would be unnecessary.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with these statements and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statements might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
Assume a company would like to operate more efficiently. Should they hire an outside consultant to suggest how they can do this or should they simply listen to the employees that already work for the company? On one hand, consultants may be unbiased and employees could be concerned about voicing their opinion, but on the other hand, employees may know the company better and simply listening to them would not require further resources. Taking all sides into consideration, it becomes clear that if companies listened to their employees that would indeed negate the need to hire an outside consultant, as employees know the company best, so not require outside resources, and asking their advice would not disturb normal operations of the company.
One may argue that hiring a consultant is the best way to go as they would be disinterested and therefore not afraid to voice an honest opinion. While it's true that employees may be hesitant to voice their opinion if it is not anonymous, the company can very easily negate this potential problem by giving employees a private and anonymous way to give their suggestions. Something as simple as having a suggestion box somewhere in the office would be an easy way to ensure employees do not have to be concerned voicing there opinions and suggesting ways to improve efficiency.
One main benefit to simply asking employees how to improve efficiency instead of hiring a consultant is that the employees, especially those who have worked at the companies for an extended period of time, will have the most extensive knowledge about the inter workings of the company. Additionally, getting the opinion of those in multiple positions at the company could engender a more comprehensive and effective approach to improving efficiency. In contrast, hiring a consultant, who would have no previous knowledge of the company, may not be able to obtain all of the knowledge needed to create an appropriate and effective solution in the limited amount of time that they have.
Furthermore, hiring an outside consultant in and of itself may create inefficiencies for at least a transitory period of time. If the consultant has to talk to many people or the company at a whole through meetings or one on one talks, this would hinder the employees from doing there work. Additionally, in order for the consultant to truly obtain an in-depth understanding of the company and where they can improve, they would have to work over an extended period of time and may have to disrupt normal operations a myriad of times. This is therefore an intrinsically ineffective approach to the problem of inefficiency. Additionally, the company should consider the extra cost of hiring a consultant. Asking employees on the other hand provides a free and efficient way of gathering in depth information and thereby engendering an appropriate solution.
In conclusion, hiring an outsider is an intrinsically inefficient approach to ameliorating a companies efficiency due to the costs associated and time of employees wasted through the consultants investigations. Meanwhile employees, as long as they can voice their opinions anonymously, can contribute in-depth knowledge of the company which would greatly benefit the creation of any solution. Therefore, before a consultant is hired, companies should first attempt to improve efficiency through those that know the company the best, the employees themselves.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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...have the most extensive knowledge about the inter workings of the company. Additionally, ...
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... the company, may not be able to obtain all of the knowledge needed to create an appropria...
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...nefficiencies for at least a transitory period of time. If the consultant has to talk to many ...
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...hey would have to work over an extended period of time and may have to disrupt normal operatio...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'companies'' or 'company's'?
Suggestion: companies'; company's
... inefficient approach to ameliorating a companies efficiency due to the costs associated ...
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Meanwhile,
...through the consultants investigations. Meanwhile employees, as long as they can voice th...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, furthermore, if, may, so, therefore, while, as to, at least, in conclusion, in contrast, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 30.0 12.9520958084 232% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 18.0 11.1786427146 161% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 28.8173652695 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 79.0 55.5748502994 142% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2890.0 2260.96107784 128% => OK
No of words: 553.0 441.139720559 125% => OK
Chars per words: 5.226039783 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.84932490483 4.56307096286 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0007580027 2.78398813304 108% => OK
Unique words: 235.0 204.123752495 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.424954792043 0.468620217663 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 912.6 705.55239521 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 29.0 22.8473053892 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 65.4845988533 57.8364921388 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 152.105263158 119.503703932 127% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.1052631579 23.324526521 125% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.21052631579 5.70786347227 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 8.20758483034 171% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.338618966658 0.218282227539 155% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.13202407729 0.0743258471296 178% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0667472466945 0.0701772020484 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.223375617887 0.128457276422 174% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0644206812345 0.0628817314937 102% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.8 14.3799401198 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.58 48.3550499002 69% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 12.197005988 130% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.65 12.5979740519 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.44 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 98.500998004 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.1389221557 122% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.