The following appeared as a memorandum from the Human Resources director at Dexter Gorman Instruments, a company that manufactures saxophones.
"On this year's survey about work habits, our employees tended to strongly agree with the idea that if they took less time to complete their assigned work, the quality of their work would suffer. However, we recently conducted an internal study that proves this idea wrong. Managers across several divisions identified an overtime group: the employees who worked an average of 48 or more hours per week over the past year instead of the expected 40 hours per week. We then looked at the number of documented work errors produced by all of our employees during the past year and found that the overtime group was responsible for significantly more work errors overall than their fellow employees. On the basis of these findings, our recommendation to the company president is to require employees at Dexter Gorman Instruments to complete their work during the regular 40-hour work week and allow overtime only for urgent circumstances."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The Human Resources director makes a recommendation that the company president should require employees to complete their work during the regular work hours and allow overtime only for urgent circumstances. This recommendation is based on an argument that the result of an internal study showed that spending an increased amount of time on a task does not significantly improve the quality of the task. However, this argument is based unwarranted assumptions and the following three questions will need to be answered to make the argument logical.
First, the director assumed that the result of the study is accurate. This may not be entirely true. What if the study was conducted among those who are naturally slow in accomplishing tasks? What if the sample of employees the study involved is not a true representation of the entire staff population? What if some employees were not present at work when the study was conducted especially those that did not make much errors? It might also be that those that participated in the study were scared that the results of their study will be made known to the company president and that they would lose their job if they went against the company’s wishes. Therefore, the director’s claim that the recommendation can be based on the finding of the study is not reasonable and the director needs to provide more answers to the highlighted questions to make the argument substantial.
Furthermore, the director’s argument that the overtime does not improve the quality of the task because the employees that had more errors were those in the overtime group is flawed. What if the people in the overtime group are the newly employed employees? What if they are not as skilled as those in the other groups? What if the cause of their overtime is because they are trying so hard to figure out the task? For instance, a newly employed staff who just graduated from the university and do not have walk experience on saxophone manufacturing may struggle to complete the assigned task because lack of necessary experience. Hence, these questions need to be answered to strengthen the argument. The director should also consider the skillset and experience level of the employees before making the comparisons between the overtime workers and the regular time workers.
In addition, the argument that the overtime workers made more errors because the documents were observed to be so is not entirely true. What if the individual that looked at the documents did not scrutinize effectively? What if the documents that were looked into were those that had more errors? The observation or report from a few documents inspected may not be substantial enough to make such conclusion made by the director.
In conclusion, if the director can explicitly state the answers to these highlighted questions, this will provide more evidence and basis to evaluate the recommendation, thereby improving the quality of work produced by the employees of Dexter Gorman Instruments.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 9 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 3 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 493 350
No. of Characters: 2472 1500
No. of Different Words: 198 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.712 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.014 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.774 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 168 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 139 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 108 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 66 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.409 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.778 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.909 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.333 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.333 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.111 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 304, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ntation of the entire staff population? What if some employees were not present at w...
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Line 2, column 416, Rule ID: MUCH_COUNTABLE[1]
Message: Use 'many' with countable nouns.
Suggestion: many
...cted especially those that did not make much errors? It might also be that those tha...
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Line 3, column 320, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...s skilled as those in the other groups? What if the cause of their overtime is becau...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, look, may, so, then, therefore, for instance, in addition, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.6327345309 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 13.6137724551 140% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 28.8173652695 128% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 53.0 55.5748502994 95% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2520.0 2260.96107784 111% => OK
No of words: 493.0 441.139720559 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11156186613 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71206996034 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87286122754 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 207.0 204.123752495 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.419878296146 0.468620217663 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 795.6 705.55239521 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.423139547 57.8364921388 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.545454545 119.503703932 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4090909091 23.324526521 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.36363636364 5.70786347227 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 14.0 6.88822355289 203% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.140812351963 0.218282227539 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.043855712877 0.0743258471296 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0356544507064 0.0701772020484 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0870757907746 0.128457276422 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0314346390584 0.0628817314937 50% => 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: 13.8 14.3799401198 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.03 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 98.500998004 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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