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 the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
The issue presents a one-sided view of a useful method to improve operational efficiency. It states that if companies spend more time listening to their employees, hiring consultants to help them improve efficiency might be unnecessary. While this may hold true in certain situations, it cannot be considered as a panacea to all efficiency problems.
For example, an e-commerce site which delivers products all around the world may have issues in the efficiency of its logistics. While company employees may be able to share some ways to improve efficiency like training sessions for workers and better packaging material, their suggestions won't capture the evolving trends in the market and innovations by competitors. If the company continues to solely rely on its employees, it may face a major setback as competitors can gain a significant advantage by staying abreast of modern practices. For example, other companies might be modifying their local inventory based on an analysis of the purchasing trends of that region. Hiring consultants to help with such situations might not only be helpful but also absolutely imperative to stay in business in the long run.
On the other hand, in certain cases, listening to the company's own employees may result in desired results. In a software products and services firm, the development is heavily dependent on the engineers and their team work. There may be certain practices within certain teams which may result in better efficiency than others. Since these practices are internal to the company, listening to the observations and opinions of employees in such situations could help the company to think of company-wide measures to improve efficiency instead of hiring consultants unaware of the true situation inside the company. A team may improve productivity by restraining discussions over product features to the planning stage and reducing them during the main execution. They might hold periodic sessions to share each individual's specific skills with the others to improve the overall team's knowledge. Such initiatives would help improve efficiency a lot more in the company than hiring outside consultants.
As another possible scenario, hiring consultants temporarily to interact with employees and work out solutions might be beneficial as well. Combining the employees' knowledge of the inner workings of the company with the global knowledge of consultants may result in great results. In the case of the aforementioned software company, employees can share their practices for improved efficiency and consultants can provide information about how other companies are improving such practices to add value to the employees' suggestions.
In summary, either listening to any company's own employees or hiring consultants to improve efficiency or both can be beneficial depending on the reasons behind the current state of efficiency, nature of the company's work, and a variety of other factors. Companies need to determine which option or combination would be more germane to their issues and accordingly take steps to work towards better operational efficiency.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 877, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'teams'' or 'team's'?
Suggestion: teams'; team's
... with the others to improve the overall teams knowledge. Such initiatives would help ...
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Line 7, column 155, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'employees'' or 'employee's'?
Suggestion: employees'; employee's
...ht be beneficial as well. Combining the employees knowledge of the inner workings of the ...
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Line 7, column 479, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'practices adding'.
Suggestion: practices adding
... how other companies are improving such practices to add value to the employees suggestions. ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, but, if, may, so, well, while, for example, in summary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.5258426966 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 23.0 12.4196629213 185% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 11.3162921348 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 33.0505617978 54% => OK
Preposition: 78.0 58.6224719101 133% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2652.0 2235.4752809 119% => OK
No of words: 484.0 442.535393258 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.47933884298 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.69041575982 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97843603428 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 237.0 215.323595506 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.489669421488 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 830.7 704.065955056 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.1561419971 60.3974514979 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.6 118.986275619 111% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.2 23.4991977007 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.6 5.21951772744 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 10.2758426966 175% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 5.13820224719 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.345022990955 0.243740707755 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.115640724889 0.0831039109588 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0953758670821 0.0758088955206 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.225635681019 0.150359130593 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.046615218002 0.0667264976115 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.5 14.1392134831 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 48.8420337079 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.1743820225 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.8 12.1639044944 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.9 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 125.0 100.480337079 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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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.