The following appeared in a memorandum sent by a vice-president of the Nadir Company to the company’s human resources department.
“Nadir does not need to adopt the costly ‘family-friendly’ programs that have been proposed, such as part-time work, work at home, and job-sharing. When these programs were made available at the Summit Company, the leader in its industry, only a small percentage of employees participated in them. Rather than adversely affecting our profitability by offering these programs, we should concentrate on offering extensive training that will enable employees to increase their productivity.”
Discuss how well reasoned
The argument states that the Nadir Company should not adopt Family friendly programs as these programs will adversely affect its profitability and instead, it should concentrate on offering the extensive training programs to increase the employee productivity. Stated in this way, the argument fails to take into account a few key factors which can call the conclusion into question. It rests on few assumptions for which there is no clear evidence. As a result, the argument is unconvincing and falls apart at the seams.
Firstly, the argument relies on the assumption that Nadir Company should not offer these programs because only a small percentage of people participated in these programs in the Summit Company, which is a leader in its respective industry. There is no information regarding the nature of work, work culture and career opportunities available in these companies. For example, if Summit Company is in manufacturing industry, it cannot offer a work from home option to its employees whereas Nadir Company develops android apps and iOS apps, which can be easily developed by employees at home.
Secondly, there is no evidence to claim that these family friendly programs will affect the profitability of the company. For example, if work from home option is made available to the employees, the company can cut down on travel allowances, which can actually help them in saving money. Moreover, work life balance is very important for employees these days and if the company provides such flexibilities, the employees may even stay with the company for longer time.
Thirdly, the argument further claims that it should offer extensive training programs to increase the employee productivity and but there is no supporting evidence regarding how many employees actually participate in these trainings and post attending these programs, the increase in employee productivity is enough to outweigh the cost of these trainings to the company.
Basis the information provided, we cannot draw the conclusion that the family friendly programs will adversely affect the profitability of the Nadir Company and by offering the extensive training programs it can significantly increase productivity of its employees.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 12 15
No. of Words: 348 350
No. of Characters: 1842 1500
No. of Different Words: 156 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.319 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.293 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.851 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 145 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 115 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 91 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 47 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 29 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.241 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.405 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.405 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.118 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 46, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this family' or 'these families'?
Suggestion: this family; these families
...dly, there is no evidence to claim that these family friendly programs will affect the profi...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, firstly, if, may, moreover, regarding, second, secondly, third, thirdly, whereas, for example, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.6327345309 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 55.5748502994 70% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1883.0 2260.96107784 83% => OK
No of words: 348.0 441.139720559 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.41091954023 5.12650576532 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31911543099 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92233326441 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 204.123752495 78% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.459770114943 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 588.6 705.55239521 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 19.7664670659 61% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 29.0 22.8473053892 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 87.1932719117 57.8364921388 151% => OK
Chars per sentence: 156.916666667 119.503703932 131% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.0 23.324526521 124% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.6666666667 5.70786347227 187% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.220969470141 0.218282227539 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0906783646797 0.0743258471296 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0624150285208 0.0701772020484 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.136952497021 0.128457276422 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0646689698688 0.0628817314937 103% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.6 14.3799401198 129% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.58 48.3550499002 69% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 12.197005988 130% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.69 12.5979740519 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.61 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 98.500998004 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.1389221557 122% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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