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 | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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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.

A growing and successful business is, usually, characterised by its ability to advertise and launch new products, produce lucrative offers for investers and, future-forward invention. However, there are some businesses that burgeon while depending on other business. Consulting companies are a well known paradigm for such businesses. Many top-tech companies have been known to hire consultants or advisors from such firms, that advises on team organisation, planning and suggests future actions. The prompt suggests that companies need not hire externally for such inputs. If the concerned organisation lends an ear to its employees, consultants can be marked as redundant or futile; inputs from the employees weigh higher than inputs from consultants. I moderately disagree with this stance due to three reasons.

It is very unlikely that an employee, especially in a big organisation with a tortuous team-organisation system, would be aware of the caveats or 'pit-falls' of other teams (which he or she does not belong to). In a well-established profitable firm, one can estimate around 1500 employees in the head office. This is not a flawed estimate as it is close to what is evident in case of companies like Apple, Samsung, DE Shaw, etc. These employees are scattered over many teams (and sub teams) within the organisation. Therefore, it is unlikely that an employee, say from team A, would be aware of the 'lacks' of team B within the company. Additionally, since members within the same team may have disparate experiences (owing to sub team division), they may not be able to advise well on the improvements. That is, a change that one member sees as an improvement (worth considering), can be perceived by the other as insignificant. Therefore, a subset of employees may not be able to suggest (prudently) on how to make operations more efficient. Hence, it is not astute to view employees as consultants due to the parochial nature of their work.

Additionally, consultants, that are hired to suggest changes in a given firm, are expert advisors. They have been hired by many similar organisations and, are aware of the pitfalls of certain decisions. For instance, Netflix wants to hire a consultant for operation efficiency. It is most likely to hire a consultant who has been previously hirted in a company with almost the same level of organisation and domain, say Disney Plus. That way, the consultant woud know, on a broad level, the challenges that a streaming company faces. It is human nature to learn from the mistakes. Consultants may exploit the principle to readily recognise 'holes' in company's operations and suggest changes. Of course, the consultant would have to go through the rigorous, exacting process of understanding the strut of the organisation. Only after this laborious study can the hired consultant suggest changes to the company to operate efficiently. Employees lack such acumen as they spend most of their time in the organisation. They are more engullfed in their own team work, than paying attention to operational nitty gritties.

Although consultants provide a fresh outlook and astute judgements, it does not imply, in any way, that the opinions of the employees should be ignored. An employee, on average, is associated with the company for half a decade or so. Therefore, the responsibility of making sure that the employee is happy, rests on the shoulders of the organisation board. This assertion is made from the surveys that have concluded that one the major factors that dictates productivity of an employee is their satisfaction and happiness in the company. Hence, a good manager should heed to the grievances of his or her employees and, report them forward so they can be managed along with the suggestions imputed by the advisor (consultant).

Hence, though there may be an exigent requirement of a consultant, a company should not sideline its employees or, subvert the weight of their feedback.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
hence, however, if, look, may, so, therefore, well, while, for instance, of course

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Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 33.0 19.5258426966 169% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 33.0505617978 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 87.0 58.6224719101 148% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3311.0 2235.4752809 148% => OK
No of words: 641.0 442.535393258 145% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16536661466 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.0316973083 4.55969084622 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.05573895369 2.79657885939 109% => OK
Unique words: 316.0 215.323595506 147% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.492979719189 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 1034.1 704.065955056 147% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 18.0 6.24550561798 288% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 11.0 4.99550561798 220% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 33.0 20.2370786517 163% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.5337664904 60.3974514979 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.333333333 118.986275619 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4242424242 23.4991977007 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.48484848485 5.21951772744 48% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 13.0 4.83258426966 269% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.342960613803 0.243740707755 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0904910485137 0.0831039109588 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0709181461227 0.0758088955206 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.195515344682 0.150359130593 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0876990887017 0.0667264976115 131% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 14.1392134831 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.8420337079 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.64 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 165.0 100.480337079 164% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
hence, however, if, look, may, so, therefore, well, while, for instance, of course

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