A company's personnel director surveyed employees about their satisfaction with the company's system for awarding employee performance ratings. The survey data indicated that employees who received high ratings were very satisfied with the system. The personnel director concluded from these data that the company's best-performing employees liked the system.
The personnel director's conclusion assumes which of the following?
A. No other performance rating system is as good as the current system.
B. The company's best-performing employees received high ratings.
C. Employees who received low ratings were dissatisfied with the system.
D. Employees who receive high ratings from a performance-rating system will like that system.
E. The company's best-performing employees were motivated to perform well by the knowledge that they would receive performance ratings.
OA E
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Premise: The survey data indicated that employees who received high ratings were very satisfied with the system.
Conclusion: The personnel director concluded from the survey data that the company's best-performing employees liked the system.
Option A - Incorrect
There's no comparison made between the current performance rating system and any other system. Hence, if we can't know if the other performance rating system is as good as the one system.
Therefore, this option is invalid.
Option B - Incorrect
From the company's personnel director conclusion, ''the company's best-performing employees liked the system''; so, it wasn't stated that the company's best-performing employees received high ratings.
Option C - Incorrect
No, this is completely wrong. The survey data only indicated the satisfaction of employees who received high ratings. It has nothing to do with employees with low ratings.
Option D - Incorrect
Note the word "will". This claim depicts more of future assumption whereas, the passage indicated that the employees with high ratings "were" very satisfied with the system.
Option E - Correct
This claim was what the personnel director assumed as a result of the survey carried out which indicated the satisfaction of employees who received high ratings. Thus, this motivated the company's best-performing employees which made them like the system.
Conclusion: The personnel director concluded from the survey data that the company's best-performing employees liked the system.
Option A - Incorrect
There's no comparison made between the current performance rating system and any other system. Hence, if we can't know if the other performance rating system is as good as the one system.
Therefore, this option is invalid.
Option B - Incorrect
From the company's personnel director conclusion, ''the company's best-performing employees liked the system''; so, it wasn't stated that the company's best-performing employees received high ratings.
Option C - Incorrect
No, this is completely wrong. The survey data only indicated the satisfaction of employees who received high ratings. It has nothing to do with employees with low ratings.
Option D - Incorrect
Note the word "will". This claim depicts more of future assumption whereas, the passage indicated that the employees with high ratings "were" very satisfied with the system.
Option E - Correct
This claim was what the personnel director assumed as a result of the survey carried out which indicated the satisfaction of employees who received high ratings. Thus, this motivated the company's best-performing employees which made them like the system.
