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34. (127) The vice president of human resources at Climpson Industries sent the following recommendation to the company's president. "In an effort to improve our employees' productivity, we should implement electronic monitoring of employees' Internet use from their workstations. Employees who use the Internet from their workstations need to be identified and punished if we are to reduce the number of work hours spent on personal or recreational activities, such as shopping or playing games. By installing software to detect employees' Internet use on company computers, we can prevent employees from wasting time, foster a better work ethic at Climpson, and improve our overall profits." Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted. In the argument, the author concludes that by installing software to detect employees'
Internet use on company computers,the company can prevent them from wasting time ,foster a
better work ethic and improve over-all profits.The argument may seens persuative at first
glance,however,because the conclusion stands upon many assumptions that are unstated or
unwarranted and thus these assumptions makes the argument far less convincing than it stands. Frist,the author assumes that employees' use of computers is the mainly cause of the
deduction of the work hours.But because of some evidence missing or ommited,the premise may not
be warranted.For example,the imployees' wasting time at office may mainly concentrate in
telephone and chatting with each other,they rarely use Internet to do recreation things,and
they mostly use it as a tool to do their job,then a software that can identified the employee
that are using computer may not be useful. Secondly,the author metions that using the software to detect Internet use may foster a better
work ethic.The assuption here is that working ethic is mainly about working efficiency.Still,it
may be not the case.A better work ethic include many other factors other than work efficiency
such as trust between emplotees and company and relationship with colleagues.If a office is
under some kind of monitor,the employees may think that they are not fully trusted by their
company so their passion of work may decline a lot as a result.Though the con circumstance of
wasting time is reduced,employees may become unsatisfied with the company.It will lead to a
worse work ethic at last. Then,the author metions that by installing the software,the over-all profits will
improve.However,this is base on the precipitous asspution that the company can afford the cost
to install it and maintain it.To improve over-all profits,to install a software may be not a
optimal chioce.For the condition of the company is not provided,the expendure of installing may
be too high that Climpson can't endure it,not to metion to maintain it.So even if the
productivity of the employees improve a lot,the cost of the software may be an incubus for the
company.Though the sell record of the company may be better than when there's no software.Its
over-all profits may be lower as well due to an increase in the over-all cost. To sum up,the seemingly logical argument is not so strong after examining.several unwarranted
assumption are there to vitiate the solidity.If the author can provide more information about
details about the article that support that contention,the recommendation can be much more
persuaive and convincing. |
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