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shikhargmat
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Hi,
Would like to know my current level in essay. Can any expect please evaluate and rate my essays.
ESSAY QUESTION:
"Employees always perform better when given a say in determining the boundaries of their roles within a company."
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
YOUR RESPONSE:
As per the argument, if the management makes sure that it talks to employee and takes care of the boundaries of his/her role accordingly, then it increases the performance of employee. In this discussion I will write in favor of this argument.
It is true that everyone is not alike. Everyone is having different career aspirations and different priorities. Some people take a lot of interest in whatever work has been assigned to them and others do a lot of work towards their interest. But it is true in more of the cases that if person is doing work of his own interest (at office or at home), his performance surely increases.
An employee who is having high ambitions in life and want to take up additional responsibilities at work, will perform better if he/she is assigned not only assigned duty, but also other works. For example, my manager at work although a Project Manager, but likes to make sales connect as well. Seeing to his interest, my group manager talked to him if he wants to take up additional responsibilities of Sales Calls which he eagerly agreed to. After this, his performance in Project has increased without affecting his Sales work and he is a happy person at workplace.
On the other hand if a person is having different priorities in life and has been assigned additional responsibilities at work without talking to him, then it is surely going to affect his performance at all work areas.
As another example of this, my organization is having a program named "Career goal" with four phases. In phases one, one defines his/her current role, in phase two, one defines the kind of role he/she would like to play in organization and phase three, he/she is initially given the new role as an additional responsibility. After one year, his/her performance is evaluated at both assigned work and additional responsibilities. If case it is proved that his/her performance has been good in additional responsibilities without affecting the performance at the assigned work, one is given the opportunity either to choose from the areas or else continue working in both the areas. He/she is given additional incentives for his performance during the year.
So overall we can say that, if a person's views are taken into consideration while defining the work boundaries for him/her, then it will surely help increase his performance.
ESSAY QUESTION:
The following appeared in a science magazine:
"The "Space Race" of the 1960's between the USA and Russia was very expensive but it yielded a tremendous number of technological advances. These advances have provided many economic and humanitarian benefits. The benefits have more than paid for the effort and money spent during the Space Race and therefore the government should make allowances within the budget to pay for a manned Mars landing by 2020."
Discuss how well reasoned you find this argument. Point out flaws in the argument's logic and analyze the argument's underlying assumptions. In addition, evaluate how supporting evidence is used and what evidence might counter the argument's conclusion. You may also discuss what additional evidence could be used to strengthen the argument or what changes would make the argument more logically sound.
YOUR RESPONSE:
The argument states that the Space Exploration done by USA and Russia in 1960's has yielded a lot of technological advances and thus have provided economic and humanitarian benefits. Comparing it with the Manned Mars Landing mission having a target of year 2020, author says that govt. should keep budgets to pay for this mission as well. The argument is based on few assumptions such as it is USA and Russian governments who need to keep budget for the Mars mission, the two governments are still having independent MARS missions and the amount of budget increase for this mission will not be exponentially higher than that assigned for the Space Race of 1960's.
For evaluating the argument, it is important to consider a few points. Is it expected that exploration of MARS will lead anything better for people on earth? If MARS exploration is expected to provide some resources which are important or good for people on earth (economic and/or humanitarian benefits) then its a good idea to put in money, but in case it is only for science exploration, then it might not be a good idea to waste so much resources and money for this mission.
A reason why 1960's Space Race resulted in better output was that Space was unexplored by that time. And the area of exploration was more of Space rather than any other planet.
Another thing to evaluate here is whether Manned MARS mission is going to lead to something better than the current Missions having a Robot deployed and Remote Monitoring it from earth. This is to be evaluated because a Manned mission is going to increase the cost of mission exponentially.
One more important point here is if after putting so much budget in Afghan and Iraq war, USA is still willing to put in a good amount of money for this mission and that it will not put in extra burden of tax payers and the economy of USA.
So overall we can say that before continuing such mission, a proper Cost Benefit analysis is necessary. In case t comes out that the benefits are much more than the Cost to be incurred, then it is good idea for governments to keep allowances within the budget to pay for this mission. If not, then money should rather be invested in other fields of Space Exploration and/or other technologies.
Would like to know my current level in essay. Can any expect please evaluate and rate my essays.
ESSAY QUESTION:
"Employees always perform better when given a say in determining the boundaries of their roles within a company."
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
YOUR RESPONSE:
As per the argument, if the management makes sure that it talks to employee and takes care of the boundaries of his/her role accordingly, then it increases the performance of employee. In this discussion I will write in favor of this argument.
It is true that everyone is not alike. Everyone is having different career aspirations and different priorities. Some people take a lot of interest in whatever work has been assigned to them and others do a lot of work towards their interest. But it is true in more of the cases that if person is doing work of his own interest (at office or at home), his performance surely increases.
An employee who is having high ambitions in life and want to take up additional responsibilities at work, will perform better if he/she is assigned not only assigned duty, but also other works. For example, my manager at work although a Project Manager, but likes to make sales connect as well. Seeing to his interest, my group manager talked to him if he wants to take up additional responsibilities of Sales Calls which he eagerly agreed to. After this, his performance in Project has increased without affecting his Sales work and he is a happy person at workplace.
On the other hand if a person is having different priorities in life and has been assigned additional responsibilities at work without talking to him, then it is surely going to affect his performance at all work areas.
As another example of this, my organization is having a program named "Career goal" with four phases. In phases one, one defines his/her current role, in phase two, one defines the kind of role he/she would like to play in organization and phase three, he/she is initially given the new role as an additional responsibility. After one year, his/her performance is evaluated at both assigned work and additional responsibilities. If case it is proved that his/her performance has been good in additional responsibilities without affecting the performance at the assigned work, one is given the opportunity either to choose from the areas or else continue working in both the areas. He/she is given additional incentives for his performance during the year.
So overall we can say that, if a person's views are taken into consideration while defining the work boundaries for him/her, then it will surely help increase his performance.
ESSAY QUESTION:
The following appeared in a science magazine:
"The "Space Race" of the 1960's between the USA and Russia was very expensive but it yielded a tremendous number of technological advances. These advances have provided many economic and humanitarian benefits. The benefits have more than paid for the effort and money spent during the Space Race and therefore the government should make allowances within the budget to pay for a manned Mars landing by 2020."
Discuss how well reasoned you find this argument. Point out flaws in the argument's logic and analyze the argument's underlying assumptions. In addition, evaluate how supporting evidence is used and what evidence might counter the argument's conclusion. You may also discuss what additional evidence could be used to strengthen the argument or what changes would make the argument more logically sound.
YOUR RESPONSE:
The argument states that the Space Exploration done by USA and Russia in 1960's has yielded a lot of technological advances and thus have provided economic and humanitarian benefits. Comparing it with the Manned Mars Landing mission having a target of year 2020, author says that govt. should keep budgets to pay for this mission as well. The argument is based on few assumptions such as it is USA and Russian governments who need to keep budget for the Mars mission, the two governments are still having independent MARS missions and the amount of budget increase for this mission will not be exponentially higher than that assigned for the Space Race of 1960's.
For evaluating the argument, it is important to consider a few points. Is it expected that exploration of MARS will lead anything better for people on earth? If MARS exploration is expected to provide some resources which are important or good for people on earth (economic and/or humanitarian benefits) then its a good idea to put in money, but in case it is only for science exploration, then it might not be a good idea to waste so much resources and money for this mission.
A reason why 1960's Space Race resulted in better output was that Space was unexplored by that time. And the area of exploration was more of Space rather than any other planet.
Another thing to evaluate here is whether Manned MARS mission is going to lead to something better than the current Missions having a Robot deployed and Remote Monitoring it from earth. This is to be evaluated because a Manned mission is going to increase the cost of mission exponentially.
One more important point here is if after putting so much budget in Afghan and Iraq war, USA is still willing to put in a good amount of money for this mission and that it will not put in extra burden of tax payers and the economy of USA.
So overall we can say that before continuing such mission, a proper Cost Benefit analysis is necessary. In case t comes out that the benefits are much more than the Cost to be incurred, then it is good idea for governments to keep allowances within the budget to pay for this mission. If not, then money should rather be invested in other fields of Space Exploration and/or other technologies.
