A company's personnel director surveyed employees about

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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 B

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Premise: A company's personnel director surveyed employees about their satisfaction with the company's system for awarding employee performance ratings.
Conclusion: The personnel director concluded from the survey data that the company's best-performing employees liked the system.

Option A - Incorrect:
This is not the personnel director's assumption because the survey was carried out to know the satisfaction of the company's employees and not to make a comparison between the current rating system and other rating systems.

Option B - Correct:
The conclusion was based on the fact that employees who received high ratings were very satisfied with the system. From this data, we know that the company's best-performing employees liked the system which brought about the correlation that the company's best-performing employees received high ratings.

Option C - Incorrect:
There is no fact in the passage to back up this option because the argument is not concerned about employees who received low ratings. Hence, we don't know the dissatisfaction of employees who received low ratings.

Option D - Incorrect:
The survey data indicated that employees who received high ratings were very satisfied with the system. The word "will" stated in this option, thus, invalidates this claim.

Option E - Incorrect:
The argument is concerned about the satisfaction of the employees, we can't justify any statement of motivation in the passage. Therefore, this option is irrelevant.