PROMPT: 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.
Who is a consultant? Webster dicitionay defines consultant as someone who has a expertise in a certain field and can help streamline processes necessary for success. In a globalized competitive environment of today, to be successful in any industry the role of a consultant is ever increasing. And although, employee of a firm can provide a necessary insight, more often than not a second pair of eyes, particularly a third party is deemed essential for ensuring efficiency and optimal growth.
A big consultant firm for instance, is DuPont In. which is involved in many industries across various sectors. The dutch firm was responsible for coming up with the six sigma plan on efficiency. Firms like these can provide tremendous knowledge to a company whose costs have sky rocketed in operations. Such consultant firms bring about multitudes of experience, which they have gathered over the years while working with various firms in a particular sector. This weath of experience along with the knowledge and suggestions of the employees of the company can help out a firm in cutting costs, increasing production, and thus increasing overall profit.
Another great example when companies hire consultant is when a brand wants makeover. In such cases, employees despite their best interest aren't of much help. Consultants can pitch in such cases providing 'out of the box' strategies to re-inovate the brand. The official carrier of India, Indian Airlines was in dire starits till recently. The company was burning through millions of dollors of the tax payers money. Until recently, when they hired Aviation Industry experts to streamline the business. The result was evident within two years when the airline was voted the best airline in Asia pacific region.
And, although hiring of consultants brings about a danger, especially in regards to dessimation of corporate secrets. The benifits most certainly outwiegh the costs.
Finally, it is impossible to have all the relevant expertise for operating a business efficiently in-house. And while, the suggestions of the employees is germane and most definitely necessary, it isn't sufficient to operate a business and sutain it with high growth. Thus, hiring of consultants and taking their views judiciously is necessary.
- The following is taken from a memo from the advertising director of the Super Screen Movie Production Company."According to a recent report from our marketing department, during the past year, fewer people attended Super Screen-produced movies than in any 50
- Rembrandt is the most famous of the seventeenth-century Dutch painters. However, there are doubts whether some paintings attributed to Rembrandt were actually painted by him. One such painting is known as attributed to Rembrandt because of its style, and 80
- Some people believe that increasing violence in the media is the cause of increasing violence in our society, especially among children. Others believe that children's peer groups and parental role models are a much more influence on children's behavior. 70
- Altruism is a type of behavior in which an animal sacrifices its own interest for that of another animal or group of animals. Altruism is the opposite of selfishness; individuals performing altruistic acts gain nothing for themselves. Examples of altruism 73
- Professors are normally found in university classrooms, offices, and libraries doing research and lecturing to their students. More and more, however, they also appear as guests on television news programs, giving expert commentary on the latest events in 86
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...g their views judiciously is necessary.
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Discourse Markers used:
['finally', 'if', 'second', 'so', 'third', 'thus', 'while', 'for instance']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.275689223058 0.240241500013 115% => OK
Verbs: 0.130325814536 0.157235817809 83% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0977443609023 0.0880659088768 111% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0426065162907 0.0497285424764 86% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0175438596491 0.0444667217837 39% => OK
Prepositions: 0.142857142857 0.12292977631 116% => OK
Participles: 0.0426065162907 0.0406280797675 105% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.91032511654 2.79330140395 104% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0175438596491 0.030933414821 57% => OK
Particles: 0.00501253132832 0.0016655270985 301% => OK
Determiners: 0.105263157895 0.0997080785238 106% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0125313283208 0.0249443105267 50% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0225563909774 0.0148568991511 152% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2289.0 2732.02544248 84% => OK
No of words: 360.0 452.878318584 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.35833333333 6.0361032391 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35587717469 4.58838876751 95% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.413888888889 0.366273622748 113% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.352777777778 0.280924506359 126% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.25 0.200843997647 124% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.186111111111 0.132149295362 141% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91032511654 2.79330140395 104% => OK
Unique words: 213.0 219.290929204 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.591666666667 0.48968727796 121% => OK
Word variations: 68.917622167 55.4138127331 124% => OK
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6194690265 107% => OK
Sentence length: 16.3636363636 23.380412469 70% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.8842404561 59.4972553346 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.045454545 141.124799967 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.3636363636 23.380412469 70% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.363636363636 0.674092028746 54% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.21349557522 134% => OK
Readability: 51.6414141414 51.4728631049 100% => OK
Elegance: 2.42105263158 1.64882698954 147% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.22579871436 0.391690518653 58% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0889069194341 0.123202303941 72% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0752828916859 0.077325440228 97% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.476899572267 0.547984918172 87% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.138280485029 0.149214159877 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0785208950018 0.161403998019 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0473124851785 0.0892212321368 53% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.311139311274 0.385218514788 81% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0373474783834 0.0692045440612 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.14497225316 0.275328986314 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0278099309117 0.0653680567796 43% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.4325221239 105% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.30420353982 57% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88274336283 164% => OK
Positive topic words: 8.0 7.22455752212 111% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 3.66592920354 55% => OK
Neutral topic words: 6.0 2.70907079646 221% => OK
Total topic words: 16.0 13.5995575221 118% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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Note: This is not the final score. 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.