劉文勇GRE寫(xiě)作Argument題庫(kù) Day 34

Day 34 In an effort to improve our employees' productivity, we should implement electronic monitoring of employees' Internet use from their workstations

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.

五問(wèn)：

（1）“In an effort to improve our employees' productivity, we should implement electronic monitoring of employees' Internet use from their workstations”是結(jié)論，值得反駁嗎？

（2）如果不讓員工在上班時(shí)關(guān)注自己的私人事務(wù)，會(huì)有什么壞處？其工作效率是否也可能會(huì)降低？這會(huì)如何影響生產(chǎn)率和利潤(rùn)率？不能及時(shí)處理自己的私人事務(wù)（尤其是比較著急的事情），可能反而會(huì)使員工一直處于焦慮狀態(tài)，更不能集中精力工作，效率也會(huì)更低。

（3）員工浪費(fèi)時(shí)間的方式只有使用電腦這一種嗎？是否有這樣一種可能：使用電腦反而是浪費(fèi)時(shí)間最少的？用手機(jī)也可以網(wǎng)購(gòu)、玩游戲，用 kindle、ipad等也可以休閑娛樂(lè)。

（4）好的工作氣氛是什么？像機(jī)器一樣工作，就是好的工作氣氛嗎？監(jiān)控電腦可能會(huì)讓員工覺(jué)得自己不被信任或隱私被侵犯，而適當(dāng)?shù)男蓍e娛樂(lè)得不到允許的話，疲勞感得不到緩解，工作效率可能只會(huì)更低，從而對(duì)這份工作失去熱情。

（5）利潤(rùn)是由哪些因素決定的？文中是否只討論了諸多因素中的一兩個(gè)？你能羅列出別的可能影響利潤(rùn)的因素嗎？例如：額外支出的增加，銷(xiāo)售費(fèi)用的增加，甚至安裝該軟件的費(fèi)用如果很高的話，都會(huì)直接影響到利潤(rùn)。