The Acme Corporation has found that improvements in its information technology infrastructure allow its employees to make more decisions that are both sound and well-informed than was previously feasible. Consequently, the corporation plans to improve employee productivity by introducing new managerial techniques that delegate much of the decision-making to lower levels of the organizational hierarchy. Managers will simply set clear standards and guidelines and then allow employee teams to undertake tasks without centralized control.
Which of the following, if true, would most strongly support a prediction that the Acme Corporation's plan will achieve its goal?
(A) The corporation will be able to cut its managerial staff only if the managers' sole function is to set clear standards and guidelines for employees.
(B) After Acme's information technology infrastructure was improved, very few of Acme's managers continued to believe that only managers should make most decisions.
(C) Most of the tasks currently performed by the corporation's employees require few if any significant decisions to be made.
(D) When employees can make decisions themselves, rather than submitting the same matters for decision to managers, there is more time available for directly productive activities.
(E) Some other companies that have better employee productivity than does the Acme Corporation also plan to use the new managerial techniques.
OA D
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Premise: The Acme corporation has found that improvements in its information technology infrastructure allow its employees to make more decisions that are both sound and well-informed than was previously feasible.
Conclusion: The corporation plans to improve employee productivity by introducing new managerial techniques that delegate much of the decision-making to lower levels of the organizational hierarchy.
Option A - Incorrect
This doesn't support the company's prediction as it's not concerned with how Acme corporation cuts its managerial staff. Hence, this weakens the company's prediction.
Option B - Incorrect
This is irrelevant to the information portrayed in the passage
Option C - Incorrect
Although it is evident from that passage that "Acme's information technology infrastructure allows its employees to make more decisions that are both sound and well-informed"; while this seems true, it's doesn't support the company's prediction of "introducing new managerial techniques that delegate much of the decision-making to lower levels of the organizational hierarchy to improve employee productivity".
Option D - Correct
This strongly gives an association with the passage because by introducing new managerial techniques that delegate much of the decision-making to lower levels of the organizational hierarchy, there will be more time saved for productive activities.
Option E - Incorrect
This claim does not conform with the argument as we are not concerned about the productivity of other companies' employee.
Conclusion: The corporation plans to improve employee productivity by introducing new managerial techniques that delegate much of the decision-making to lower levels of the organizational hierarchy.
Option A - Incorrect
This doesn't support the company's prediction as it's not concerned with how Acme corporation cuts its managerial staff. Hence, this weakens the company's prediction.
Option B - Incorrect
This is irrelevant to the information portrayed in the passage
Option C - Incorrect
Although it is evident from that passage that "Acme's information technology infrastructure allows its employees to make more decisions that are both sound and well-informed"; while this seems true, it's doesn't support the company's prediction of "introducing new managerial techniques that delegate much of the decision-making to lower levels of the organizational hierarchy to improve employee productivity".
Option D - Correct
This strongly gives an association with the passage because by introducing new managerial techniques that delegate much of the decision-making to lower levels of the organizational hierarchy, there will be more time saved for productive activities.
Option E - Incorrect
This claim does not conform with the argument as we are not concerned about the productivity of other companies' employee.
