The following is a recommendation from the director of personnel to the president of
Professional Printing Company.
"In a recent telephone survey of automobile factory workers, older employees were less likely
to report that having a supervisor present increases their productivity. Among workers aged 18
to 29, 27 percent said that they are more productive in the presence of their immediate
supervisor, compared to 12 percent for those aged 30 or over, and only 8 percent for those
aged 50 or over. Clearly, if our printing company hires mainly older employees, we will
increase productivity and save money because of the reduced need for supervisors."
The argument has some flawed assumptions and lack certain statistics, and detailed analysis. Workers aged 18 to 29, will be most inexperienced people, so it’s agreeable that they need supervisors to have more progress on the work. However, along with the age the need for supervision reduces, and workers can work independently.
But, in the argument there isn’t any quantitative estimate of productivity when the statistics is presented. It may happen that, workers in their young age are more productive and valuable to the company than the older age people. People in their early career can be more productive quantitatively because of their persisting enthusiasm and no other social commitments; while the older age group are generally burdened with the family responsibility, and moral thoughts, because of which they mostly prefer supervising the young workers instead of doing the work by themselves.
So it’s quite possible that, the older age people work as supervisor to the younger age group. So the productivity of both are interdependent on each other. But this scenario has been completely ignored in the assumption. The people beyond 50 should be asked if they will be able to handle all the workloads if they will function as a majority of the employees and there will be very less number of young employees.
Also, if the company hires mainly older employee, then it would have to pay them more owing to their prior work experiences. So there needs to be a strong estimation and critical analysis of the cost to company for an employee vs productivity of the employee.
The argument hasn’t been able to provide a reliable information from the survey that, how many employees from the 3 types of age groups were surveyed. If the sample set of the number of employees different groups are largely uneven, then the data can provide a biased view. Since, the younger age people are more excited to take the survey, the most aged employees might have skipped it.
To have a better business model to increase productivity, the company needs to observe the total productivity per employee for different groups and needs to take account other factors such as if there is a harmony in between different age-groups of employee and everyone’s productivity relies on each other.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 381 350
No. of Characters: 1864 1500
No. of Different Words: 189 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.418 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.892 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.778 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 126 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 96 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 69 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 44 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.812 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.006 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.812 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.326 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.617 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.075 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, so, then, thus, while, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 55.5748502994 77% => 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: 1958.0 2260.96107784 87% => OK
No of words: 379.0 441.139720559 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16622691293 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41224685777 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92456853811 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 204.123752495 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.517150395778 0.468620217663 110% => OK
syllable_count: 606.6 705.55239521 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 77.1362431027 57.8364921388 133% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.375 119.503703932 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6875 23.324526521 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.6875 5.70786347227 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
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: 0.0901770902841 0.218282227539 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0326550174629 0.0743258471296 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0322241129042 0.0701772020484 46% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0533608200532 0.128457276422 42% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0325700032105 0.0628817314937 52% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 14.3799401198 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.36 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 98.500998004 87% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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.