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.
The statement argues that if companies listened more to their employees it would not be necessary to hire consultants. This is a point often heard by employees complaining about their company and how money is wasted on outside consultant.
At first, it is definitely true that in a lot of companies there is a great gap between the management and the workers and communication often fails. So independentely of consultants it is a necessity that the voice of employees is more heard.
In this aspect, the statement is right: Employees do the work and hence know it the best. Thus they should be the first ones to come up with ideas how to improve the company's performance and how to make processes within the company more efficient.
On the other hand, I do not think that only listening to employees can solve all problems. For example in big companies there are issues concerning several divisions of that company and employees might only see their little bit but not the company as whole. In this situation an outside consultant will help by having an unbiased look on the company and seeing the problem as a whole.
Additionally outside consultants often have a lot of experience and have worked with several different companies. As a consequence they do have a great knowledge of what works in other companies and what was has not worked there. This knowledge they can use in order to make working concepts suitable for the hiring company.
Like already stated employees know their work the best. On the one hand side this is a great advantage over outside consultants who need a lot of time getting to know a company. But on the other hand employees might even know their processes and company too well and thus struggle with being open to new working ways. Additionally they might not even consider completely different options than their recent used processes since they cannot imagine that those work too.
In my own experience, I worked in a big insurance company. While working there we had to do a system migration and therefore asked outside consultants for help. In this case those consultants were absolutely needed since they were experts in this field and have done such things multiple times. Nevertheless as an employee you've often got the feeling that they ruled about your work and you've got a feeling of being helpless. In this case it would have been helpful if we employees had been asked for often how we feel about these changes and what we think how new processes should look like.
In conclusion let me say, that the statement does have a point that whatever a company does it is important that employees are asked about their opinion and what changes they wish for. I am sure that often those ideas are sufficient in order to make a company more efficientely. Nevertheless there certainly are issues which need help from outside consultants like the one described above. But hiring outside consultants should not take the place of asking the own employees.
However, it should never be forgotten that outside consultants are expensive and thus a company should use its own resources before asking for extern help.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, however, if, look, nevertheless, so, therefore, thus, well, while, for example, in conclusion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 11.1786427146 179% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 57.0 28.8173652695 198% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 69.0 55.5748502994 124% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2624.0 2260.96107784 116% => OK
No of words: 539.0 441.139720559 122% => OK
Chars per words: 4.86827458256 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.81833721656 4.56307096286 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63725848775 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 233.0 204.123752495 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.432282003711 0.468620217663 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 815.4 705.55239521 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.22255489022 237% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 19.7664670659 132% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 32.3171460527 57.8364921388 56% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 100.923076923 119.503703932 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7307692308 23.324526521 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.03846153846 5.70786347227 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 9.0 5.15768463074 174% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 11.0 5.25449101796 209% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 8.20758483034 171% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.39559340221 0.218282227539 181% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.119228054688 0.0743258471296 160% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0760380873936 0.0701772020484 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.204947765628 0.128457276422 160% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0768170298793 0.0628817314937 122% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 14.3799401198 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.3550499002 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 12.5979740519 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.15 8.32208582834 86% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 98.500998004 87% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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