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69The following appeared in a memo from avice president of a large, highly diversified company.
"Ten years ago our company had two newoffice buildings constructed as regional headquarters for two regions. Thebuildings were erected by different construction companies—Alpha and Zeta. Althoughthe two buildings had identical floor plans, the building constructed by Zetacost 30 percent more to build. However, that building's expensesfor maintenance last year were only half those of Alpha's. Inaddition, the energy consumption of the Zeta building has been lower than thatof the Alpha building every year since its construction. Given these data, plusthe fact that Zeta has a stable workforce with little employee turnover, werecommend using Zeta rather than Alpha for our new building project, eventhough Alpha's bid promises lower construction costs."
Write a response in which you discuss whatquestions would need to be answered in order to decide whether therecommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure toexplain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate therecommendation.
10年以前我们公司在两个不同地区拥有两座地方办公建筑。它们由两家建筑公司--Alpha和Zeta分别建造。尽管两座建筑的平面布局基本相同，由Zeta所建造的建筑造价高出了30％，但去年的维护费用是由Alpha建的楼的50%。而且，Z大楼建成以来的能耗每年都比Alpha大楼要少。这些数据，再加上Z公司拥有稳定的员工队伍且雇员流动性很小的事实，表明我们应该使用Z建筑公司而不是A公司来建造未来的建筑工程，尽管A的标书承诺造价会更低。
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首先，Zeta公司十年前建的大楼的维护成本较低，去年，Zeta所建这幢大楼的维护成本仅是Alpha公司所建的相同大楼的一半。但问题是：是否是其他一些与Zeta公司及其所建工程无关的因素导致这幢大楼的维护成本较低？比如，大楼所在地区较低的人工成本、该地区良好的环境条件（没有工业污染，气候稳定）、这栋楼的使用者爱护这幢楼的内外设施、良好的物业管理等。其他，论者只提到过去一年两幢楼的维护成本差异。那么，在过去十年间，这幢楼的维护成本如何？如果这十年平均下来，Alpha大楼的年维护费反而比Zeta大楼更低呢？论者仅取一年的数据进行比较，可信度不高。
然后，Zeta大楼的能耗自建成以来就比Alpha大楼低。同样的问题是：是否是其他一些与Zeta公司及其所建工程无关的因素导致这幢楼能耗较低呢？比如这幢大楼所在地区日照充足、温度适宜，这样的话，Zeta大楼根本就不需要制冷或者制热的空调系统，能耗自然就低。而Alpha所在地区必须高度依赖空调，其能耗自然就高。另外，其他的因素，诸如大楼不同的物业管理水平、人们的节能意识、两地大楼的不同使用率、两地不同的用电成本。
论据三提到Zeta公司的人员队伍稳定，基本没有人员流动。论者有意在说明Zeta公司较好的人员管理和员工素质。但很可能是其他原因，比如Zeta公司缺乏良好地个人效绩考评机制、员工年龄偏大，使得那里的员工不愿离去。或者因为Zeta公司培养了一大批懒散的员工，这些员工难以找到工作，所以不愿离开这家能偷懒的公司。如此的话，Zeta公司的稳定的人员队伍同其人事管理水平和员工素质实际上没有什么关系。
最后，即便论者所说的都有道理，用十年前的事情来说明当前也不大合适。这十年间这两家公司没有发生变化？
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First,the author stated that the cost of the maintenance built by Zeta is lower. Thatbuilding's expenses for maintenance last year were only half those of Alpha's. Butthe problem is whether is other factors which is irrelevant withZeta`s building engineering has led the lower expenses formaintenance. For example, the lower labor cost, the favourable ecologic conditions(suchas no industrial pollution, the stable weather environment ), or the betterproperty management in the area. And maybe the resident is more care about building`sfacility. And the author only refer the discrepancy of building's expenses formaintenance last year. In that way, how about building's expenses formaintenance in the past ten years. It is trustless that if building's average expensesfor maintenance of Zeta is much more than building's average expensesfor maintenance of Alpha in the past ten years. The author may be suspected ofbeing involved falsify the data because the author only provide one-year datato compare.
Secondly,the energyconsumption of the Zeta building has been lower than that of theAlpha building every year since its construction. Then the same question is whetheris other factors which is irrelevant with Zeta`s building engineering has led thelower energy consumption of the Zeta building. For instance, the area of Zeta`sbuilding full with plenty of sunshine, the climatic optimum in the area. Inthis case, there is less need about the refrigeration or air-condition. It issure the less energy consumption of the Zetabuilding. Nevertheless, there is highly dependent of air-condition because ofthe variation of weather in the area of Alpha. So it is the higher energyconsumption of the Alpha building. Otherwise, there would be much more elementabout energy consumption of the two buildings, such as the different propertymanagement between Zeta building and Alpha building, the different Energy-savingawareness in the two areas or the discrepancy between the two areas.
Thirdly,the author mentioned that Zeta has a stable workforce with little employeeturnover. The author had a mind to account for Zeta has a stable personalmanagement mechanism and a better staff quality. But maybe Zeta is lack in anicer Performance appraisal mechanism and Partial old age structure ledemployment not to leave the company. Perhaps Zeta had already fostered a batchof lazy employments, they are hard to find another job so that they only stayin Zeta. If so, It is less relative between stable workforce with little employeeturnover and Zeta`s personal management mechanism.
Ultimately,even though the author`s argument is reasonable. It is not suitable to state bymean of data in ten years ago. Is it any change occurred in the two companiesin the past ten years? |
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