All too often, companies hire outside consultants to suggest ways for the company to operate more efficiently. If companies were to spend more time listening to their own employees, such consultants would be unnecessary.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with these statements and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statements might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
The prompt is accurate when it states, "All too often companies hire outside consultants." Counter to what the prompt states, this practice actually slows efficiency. Determing the appropriate consulting agency takes time and effort, which is time-consuming. In addition, it is unclear whether the companies can afford consultants, so after finding the right consulting agency, a company may find itself unable to bear the cost of starting a project. Finally, while it may be said that the consultants are worth the time, effort, and costs, many can easily counterargue that internal consultants will do just as adequate a job. As it stands, a company can operate more efficiently by avoiding outside consultants.
Identifying the right consulting agency can take as much time as the consulting process itself, ironically, thereby making the project redundant. Perhaps a company wants to bring in a consulting agency for a few weeks to improve its distribution of soap in the US' Northeastern market Knowing the right consulting agency, contacting the right consultants, describing your company's needs to the consulting agency--the process distracts the executive suite. Does the executive suite want to deal with such distractions? By the time the project begins, they will ask themselves, "Is this project really worth it? Can we do exactly what the consultants are doing ourselves?" The project's inefficiency ironically causes the company to operate less efficiency.
Hiring outside consultants additionally requires outlandish costs, and the leaders making those decisions have little idea of whether the outcome will be effective. In one instance, a company may hire a few McKinsey management consultants or Deloitte accounting consultants to better streamline its supply chain or improve the accounting process. However, the overall costs may come out to hundreds of thousands of dollars, simply for having a few weeks of advising The executive suite may ask themselves, "Was it really worth it? Could we have done exactly what the consultants did ourselves?" The costs do not always outweigh the benefits, and that becomes apparently clear after the fact.
Having internal consultants only further proves the claim that external consultants are redundant. These consultants are employed within and remain with the company indefinitely. They identify issues on a constant basis and are already well-aware of the issues holding the company back. That means that the executive suite does not need to waste time explaining the issues to them; they already know what the issues are. In addition, there are no additional costs; the internal consultants are omnipresent.
Although companies will continue to hire outside consultants, it is easy to transition to internal consultants. Operations researchers, organizational scientists, industrial-organizational psychologists--companies are constantly adding these positions to their research and development departments. Companies can easily streamline them into their companies and operations. In addition, these employees can "listen to their own employees," as the prompt says, as they are well-practiced in such. Adding these roles is a great step forward and a much better plan. It is more efficient for companies to have inside consultants do the consulting in place of outside consultants. Companies will be pleased with the result.
| Post date | Users | Rates | Link to Content |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-26 | Arpit Sahni | 58 | view |
| 2020-01-24 | shamitha | 66 | view |
| 2020-01-18 | JENIRSHAH | 50 | view |
| 2020-01-17 | caseya5 | 66 | view |
| 2020-01-14 | Siddiqur Rahman | 50 | view |
- The following appeared in a newsletter offering advice to investors:“Techcorporation is our top pick for investment this term. We urge all of our clients to invest in this new company. For the first time in ten years, a company that has developed satell 29
- The following appeared in a magazine article about planning for retirement."Clearview should be a top choice for anyone seeking a place to retire, because it has spectacular natural beauty and a consistent climate. Another advantage is that housing costs 29
- A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position 66
- The following appeared in a letter from the faculty committee to the president of Seatown University:A study conducted at nearby Oceania University showed that faculty retention is higher when professors are offered free tuition at the university for thei 69
- Many lives might be saved if inoculations against cow flu were routinely administered to all people in areas where the disease is detected. However, since there is a small possibility that a person will die as a result of the inoculations, we cannot permi 66
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 685, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'projects'' or 'project's'?
Suggestion: projects'; project's
...sultants are doing ourselves?' The projects inefficiency ironically causes the comp...
^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 296, Rule ID: IT_IS[6]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: it's; it is
...unting consultants to better streamline its supply chain or improve the accounting ...
^^^
Line 9, column 442, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , &apos
... can 'listen to their own employees,' as the prompt says, as they are well-p...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, apparently, but, finally, however, if, may, really, so, well, while, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.4196629213 153% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 43.0 33.0505617978 130% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 49.0 58.6224719101 84% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2927.0 2235.4752809 131% => OK
No of words: 514.0 442.535393258 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.69455252918 5.05705443957 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.76146701107 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.39167336245 2.79657885939 121% => OK
Unique words: 253.0 215.323595506 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.492217898833 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 896.4 704.065955056 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 56.5403584193 60.3974514979 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.576923077 118.986275619 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7692307692 23.4991977007 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.46153846154 5.21951772744 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.355599862368 0.243740707755 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.109159612972 0.0831039109588 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0688108552878 0.0758088955206 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.216346068522 0.150359130593 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0760227235693 0.0667264976115 114% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 14.1392134831 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.8420337079 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.72 12.1639044944 129% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.63 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 132.0 100.480337079 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
---------------------
Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.