Seniority (years of service) should not be the basis of employee compensation. Employees should be promoted and given raises solely on the basis of their work performance and merit. That is a better way to encourage high productivity.
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations or reading.
Winston Churchill once said, "it is not the size of the dog in the fight, it is the size of the fight in the dog." Thus, while one can claim that with age comes wisdom, in a world characterized by cut-throat competition, an employer should aim to get the most out of its employees by compensating them mainly on the basis of their work performance and merit.
For example, let us compare two distinct work situations in a country like India. On one hand, we have Government jobs where the promotion and raises are commensurate with the number of years of service of the employee. This leads to complacency. Employees in such institutions know that they will be paid their monthly salary no matter how poorly they perform. They come to work late, behave leisurely and cause great inconvenience to the public. Seldom do these employees realize that the salaries that they draw come from the tax payer's income.
Further, since promotions are based on seniority, the employees become recalcitrant and show tendencies to disobey their superior officers. Additionally, retaining and providing benefits to an employee solely because they have been working for the same institution for a longer time might even result in some form of hierarchy. This kind of framework could go on to hamper effective teamwork and attenuate the performance of the organization in the long run.
On the other hand, there are several private enterprises that value talent more and for whom 'age is just a number'. They value individuals who can deliver. And, by rewarding this talent, they can ensure that their human resource stays motivated. The prospect of getting a big bonus or a raise or a promotion for a job well done goes a long way in ensuring employee satisfaction.
In fact, if we go by statistics from employment based websites like 'Glassdoor', some of the companies, that have been ranked the best to work with, are also those which recognize and encourage talent and reward this talent by faster promotions, relocation to foreign countries, frequent business trips and bonuses. These kinds of rewards also ensure employee fidelity as they will be motivated to work assiduously and contribute to an organization that they feel truly value them.
In conclusion, while it goes without saying that, senior employees do bring a certain value to an Organization - be it through their acumen, years of experience and familiarity with the company, the younger employees bring in freshness and uniqueness to an existing framework and prevent it from going stale and outdated. Hence, companies must strive to achieve the right balance by ensuring that they increase productivity by rewarding merit and performance and not just by rewarding seniority.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 80, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, so, thus, well, while, for example, in conclusion, in fact, kind of, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.5258426966 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 33.0505617978 130% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 64.0 58.6224719101 109% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2288.0 2235.4752809 102% => OK
No of words: 451.0 442.535393258 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07317073171 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.60833598836 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8406355958 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 256.0 215.323595506 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.567627494457 0.4932671777 115% => OK
syllable_count: 708.3 704.065955056 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 91.911793464 60.3974514979 152% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.111111111 118.986275619 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.0555555556 23.4991977007 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 5.21951772744 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.239122079927 0.243740707755 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0621853280165 0.0831039109588 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0485461374899 0.0758088955206 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.115643848719 0.150359130593 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0292433744697 0.0667264976115 44% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 14.1392134831 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.1743820225 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.1639044944 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.08 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 120.0 100.480337079 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 11.8971910112 151% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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