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[jocheved]

8. The following appeared in the editorial section of a corporate newsletter.

“The common notion that workers are generally apathetic about management issues is false, or at least outdated: a recently published survey indicates that 79 percent of the nearly 1,200 workers who responded to survey questionnaires expressed a high level of interest in the topics of corporate restructuring and redesign of benefits programs.”

Discuss how well reasoned... etc.
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While a recent survey showed that nearly 79% of 1,200 of respondents expressed a high interest in corporate restructuring and benefit program, we cannot simply conclude that workers are enthusiastic of management issues in general.
First, the study only sampled 1,200 workers and drew conclusion based on these respondents alone. We do not know how many industries, companies, professions were included in our studies. The result of enthusiastic workers be heavily shifted from extremes to extremes given the industry, companies, and professions. Let’s consider a job of janitor versus Facebook engineers. Assuming that most janitors are hourly compensated and night-shifted, many janitors do not have much interactions with the management of their companies. The nature of the work prevents them from meeting senior executives and collaborating with upper managements to lead the company. On the other hand, engineers at Facebook might express more interest in corporate benefits and restructuring. They are more closely to work directly with upper managements and executive members to direct and develop their next generation programs. In addition, Facebook engineers work standard day time like senior management members. Without industry or the professions, it is hard validate the survey of 1,200 workers in our example.
Second, the management issues may not only be corporate restructuring and redesigning benefits programs. While these two issues are part of the management issues, however, the management issue is far broader at the company level. Management issues vary greatly from sales, finance, production, marketing to human resources. What the survey found out was that people do think about human resources issues that might closely tied with employees’ compensations. Based on this, we are not sure whether the employees think like the management or just for their own interest.

[khalid]

8. The following appeared in the editorial section of a corporate newsletter.

“The common notion that workers are generally apathetic about management issues is false, or at least outdated: a recently published survey indicates that 79 percent of the nearly 1,200 workers who responded to survey questionnaires expressed a high level of interest in the topics of corporate restructuring and redesign of benefits programs.”

Discuss how well reasoned... etc.
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While a recent survey showed that nearly 79% of 1,200 of respondents expressed a high interest in corporate restructuring and benefit program, we cannot simply conclude that workers are enthusiastic of management issues in general.
First, the study only sampled 1,200 workers and drew conclusion based on these respondents alone. We do not know how many industries, companies, professions were included in our studies. The result of enthusiastic workers be heavily shifted from extremes to extremes given the industry, companies, and professions. Let’s consider a job of janitor versus Facebook engineers. Assuming that most janitors are hourly compensated and night-shifted, many janitors do not have much interactions with the management of their companies. The nature of the work prevents them from meeting senior executives and collaborating with upper managements to lead the company. On the other hand, engineers at Facebook might express more interest in corporate benefits and restructuring. They are more closely to work directly with upper managements and executive members to direct and develop their next generation programs. In addition, Facebook engineers work standard day time like senior management members. Without industry or the professions, it is hard validate the survey of 1,200 workers in our example.
Second, the management issues may not only be corporate restructuring and redesigning benefits programs. While these two issues are part of the management issues, however, the management issue is far broader at the company level. Management issues vary greatly from sales, finance, production, marketing to human resources. What the survey found out was that people do think about human resources issues that might closely tied with employees’ compensations. Based on this, we are not sure whether the employees think like the management or just for their own interest.

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