请大家讨论作文犬思路AA-40

小魔女 · 发表于 2010-9-7 00:28:36

The following appeared in a memorandum from the head of a human resources department at a major automobile manufacturing company to the company's managers:
“Studies have found that employees of not-for-profit organizations and charities are often more highly motivated than employees of for-profit corporations to perform well at work when their performance is not being monitored or evaluated. Interviews with employees of not-for-profit organizations suggest that the reason for their greater motivation is the belief that their work helps to improve society. Because they believe in the importance of their work, they have personal reasons to perform well, even when no financial reward is present. Thus, if our corporation began donating a significant portion of its profits to humanitarian causes, our employees’ motivation and productivity would increase substantially and our overall profits would increase as well.”

我能想到的是1）捐钱的事不一定导致生产力提升2）盈利不一定增加
但对于前面叙述的非盈利机构的调查结果和访谈，大家觉得有什么可攻击的点吗？
先谢谢大家参与献言献策了

xjason · 发表于 2010-9-7 02:05:32

1）错误定义：将NPO与PO的区别简单化，认为捐钱就能使PO NPO化从而影响员工。

2）错误类比：捐钱不一定能导致PO的员工believe in the importance of their work，将2种员工相提并论了。解释NPO员工和PO员工对donate的看法不一定一样的。

或者说是false assumption，假设donate了后PO员工会有上述的belief，我们辩驳说：或许他们更希望把那些捐款发工资作为financial incentives进而提高积极性。

3）lz提到的错误推论。补充一点理由就是钱捐走了后，PO的retained earnings就少了，影响再投资或maintainance，甚至会影响生产力以及profit。

暂时想到这些，希望对LZ有帮助。

爱玩才会赢 · 发表于 2010-9-7 02:22:19

对于调查方面，我觉得可以这样说：

质疑作者调查NPO 和PO 是不是同一级别的。因为如果调查NPO的时候是行业顶级的公司，而PO只是一般中等的企业的话，两者员工的performance，motivation自然不同。

还可以质疑interview的结果：说作者fail to consider 员工说的那些话也许公司叫他们这么说的，而并非他们自己的想法

这是大概是我对于evidence 方面的想法，欢迎指正，大家共同提高

小魔女 · 发表于 2010-9-7 12:20:53

非常感谢楼上两位的分享，我觉得都很好！预祝大家考试时都有如神助！取得满意的成绩！

另:xjason同学搞会计的吧，对利润的分配理解的那是相当透彻啊!haha~~~!

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