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1.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.”
Discuss how well reasoned . . .etc.
2. The
following appeared in an editorial from a magazine produced by an organization
dedicated to environmental protection:
“In order to effectively reduce the amount of environmental damage that
industrial manufacturing plants cause, those who manage the plants must be
aware of the specific amount and types of damage caused by each of their
various manufacturing processes. However, few corporations have enough
financial incentive to monitor this information. In order to guarantee that
corporations reduce the damage caused by their plants, the federal government
should require every corporation to produce detailed annual reports on the
environmental impact of their manufacturing process, and the government should
impose stiff financial penalties for failure to produce these reports.”
Discuss how well reasoned . . .etc.
3. The
following appeared in a memorandum from the information technology department
of a major advertising firm:
“The more efficient a firm’s employees are, the more profitable that firm
will be. Improvements in a firm’s information technology hardware and software
are a proven way to increase the efficiency of employees who do the majority of
their work on computers. Therefore, if our firm invests in the most powerful
and advanced information technology available, employee productivity will be
maximized. This strategy ensures that every dollar spent on enhanced information
technology will help to increase our firm’s profit margins.”
Discuss how well reasoned . . .etc.
4. The
following appeared in a memorandum from the CEO of a consumer electronics
manufacturing firm to the head of the company's human resources department, who
is responsible for hiring new employees:
“Eight years ago, our firm’s profits were increasing with each new
employee we added. We discovered that each employee had the skills and
motivation to generate more revenue for the firm than his or her salary cost
us.
However, for the past two years, our profit margin has been falling, even
though we have continued to add employees. Thus, our newer employees are not
generating enough revenue to justify their salaries. We must not be hiring new
employees with the same level of skills and motivation as those we used to
attract. Clearly, then, failures in the human resources department account for
our falling profits.”
Discuss how well reasoned . . .etc.
5. The following
appeared in the editorial section of a local newspaper:
“The tragic crash of a medical helicopter last week points up a situation
that needs to be addressed. The medical helicopter industry supposedly has more
stringent guidelines for training pilots and maintaining equipment than do most
other airline industries, but these guidelines do not appear to be working:
statistics reveal that the rate of medical-helicopter accidents is much higher
than the rate of accidents for non-medical helicopters or commercial airliners.”
Discuss how well reasoned . . . etc.
6. The
following appeared in a letter from a part-owner of a small retail clothing
chain to her business partner:
“Commercial real estate prices have been rising steadily in the Sandida
Heights neighborhood for several years, while the prices in the adjacent
neighborhood of Palm Grove have remained the same. It seems obvious, then, that
a retail space in Sandida Heights must now be much more expensive than a
similar space in Palm Grove, which was not the case several years ago. So, it
appears that retail spaces in Sandida Heights are now overpriced relative to those
in Palm Grove. Therefore, it would be in our financial interest to purchase a
retail space in Palm Grove rather than in Sandida Heights.”
Discuss how well reasoned . . . etc.
7. The
following appeared as part of an article in a daily newspaper:
“The computerized onboard warning system that will be installed in
commercial airliners will virtually solve the problem of midair plane
collisions. One plane’s warning system can receive signals from another’s
transponder—a radio set that signals a plane’s course—in order to determine the
likelihood of a collision and recommend evasive action.”
Discuss how well reasoned . . . etc.
8. The
following appeared in a presentation by the chief production manager of a
machine parts manufacturing company at a management meeting:
“Our factory in Cookville is our most advanced and efficient. It is
capable of producing ten drill bits for each dollar of production costs,
whereas none of our other factories can produce more than seven drill bits per
dollar of production costs. Therefore, we can reduce our overall drill bit
production costs by devoting the Cookville factory entirely to drill bit
production. Since reducing the production costs of individual machine parts is
the only way to achieve our larger goal of reducing our overall production
costs, dedicating the Cookville factory entirely to drill bit production and shifting
all other machine part production to our other factories will help us to attain
that larger goal.”
Discuss how well reasoned . . .etc.
9.The following
appeared in a memorandum to a team developing accounting software for SmartPro
Software, Inc.:
“Currently, more professional accountants use SmartPro accounting software
than any other brand. However, in the market for personal accounting software
for non-professionals to use in preparing their income tax returns, many of our
competitors are outselling us. In surveys, our professional customers repeatedly
say that they have chosen SmartPro Software because our most sophisticated
software products include more advanced special features than competing brands.
Therefore, the most effective way for us to increase sales of our personal
accounting software for home users would clearly be to add the advanced special
features that our professional software products currently offer.”
Discuss how well reasoned . . .etc.
10. The
following appeared in a memorandum from the marketing department of a
children’s clothing manufacturer:
“Our HuggyBunny brand is the bestselling brand of children’s clothing.
Parents everywhere recognize the HuggyBunny logo as a mark of quality, and most
of our customers show great brand loyalty. Sales reports have shown that
parents are more likely to buy children’s clothes with the familiar HuggyBunny
brand and logo than otherwise identical clothes without it. Therefore, if we
use the HuggyBunny brand name and logo for the new line of clothing for
teenagers that our company will soon be introducing, that clothing will sell
better than it would if we labeled it with a new brand name and logo.”
Discuss how well reasoned . . .etc.
11.The following
appeared in a letter to the editor of a local newspaper:
“Our city council’s neglect of the impoverished Railroad Flats
neighborhood has left businesses with little incentive to locate there.
Building a new professional football stadium in the neighborhood would solve
this problem. Thousands
of football fans would travel to the area to see games, and they would buy
from local merchants, encouraging new businesses to open. So our city council
should move quickly to fund the construction of a professional football stadium
in Railroad Flats in order to help the neighborhood develop a thriving
economy.”
Discuss how well reasoned . . .etc.
12.The following
appeared in a research paper written for an introductory economics course:
“For the past century, an increase in the number of residential building
permits issued per month in a particular region has been a reliable indicator
of coming improvements to that region’s economy. If the monthly number of residential
building permits issued rises consistently for a few months, the local
unemployment rate almost always falls and economic production increases. This
well-established connection reveals an effective method by which a regional
government can end a local economic downturn: relax regulations governing all
construction so that many more building permits can be issued.”
Discuss how well reasoned . . .etc.
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