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Good Question....Give your reasoning

by reply2spg » Wed Aug 11, 2010 9:13 pm
In recent years, unions have begun to include in their demands at the collective bargaining table requests for contract provisions which give labor an active voice in determining the goals of a corporation. Although it cannot be denied that labor leaders are highly skilled administrators, it must be recognized that their primary loyalty is and must remain to their membership, not to the corporation. Thus, labor participation in corporate management decisions makes about as
much sense as __________.

Which of the following represents the best continuation of the passage?

1. allowing inmates to make decisions about prison security
2. a senior field officer asking the advice of a junior officer on a question of tactics
3. a university's asking the opinion of the student body on the scheduling of courses
4. Chicago's mayor inviting the state legislators for a ride on the city's subway system
5. the members of a church congregation discussing theology with the minister

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by uwhusky » Wed Aug 11, 2010 9:20 pm
A for me.

Labor union's objective in many cases work against corporation's objectives. Same can be said about inmates and the prison guards.

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by seshadrivyas » Thu Aug 12, 2010 2:31 am
IMO C

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by goyalsau » Thu Aug 12, 2010 2:52 am
I think it should be B,

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by vijayantj » Thu Aug 12, 2010 3:44 am
it shud be C

since they r working in same organization, same way university guys n students r in a college

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by FightWithGMAT » Thu Aug 12, 2010 4:09 am
reply2spg wrote:In recent years, unions have begun to include in their demands at the collective bargaining table requests for contract provisions which give labor an active voice in determining the goals of a corporation. Although it cannot be denied that labor leaders are highly skilled administrators, it must be recognized that their primary loyalty is and must remain to their membership, not to the corporation. Thus, labor participation in corporate management decisions makes about as
much sense as __________.

Which of the following represents the best continuation of the passage?

1. allowing inmates to make decisions about prison security
2. a senior field officer asking the advice of a junior officer on a question of tactics
3. a university's asking the opinion of the student body on the scheduling of courses
4. Chicago's mayor inviting the state legislators for a ride on the city's subway system
5. the members of a church congregation discussing theology with the minister

OA later
IMO C

Few points:

Premise does not say that labor should set corporate goals. So A is out.
The argument mentions that labor should participate in determining corporate goals.

C says that the student body should participate in deciding courses scheduling.

And argument is conveying a positive tone. Labor participation would be good for both corporate and employees.
C also conveys the same kind of positive tone.

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by reply2spg » Thu Aug 12, 2010 4:14 am
OA is A. I don't have source of this. But I have the same reasoning like that of uwhusky.
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by ankurmit » Thu Aug 12, 2010 9:39 am
How can we assume that Labor union's objective in many cases work against corporation's objectives?

As mentioned in argument that this policy will provide them active rights in Defining goals of the company...

Goals define vision of company and it is mostly employee centric :)
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by uwhusky » Thu Aug 12, 2010 9:44 am
Although it cannot be denied that labor leaders are highly skilled administrators, it must be recognized that their primary loyalty is and must remain to their membership, not to the corporation.
If the stimulus has to iterate that the loyalty of the labor leaders is to the labor union, not to the corporation, one can infer that labor leaders will likely to have different objectives than the corporations.

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by arora007 » Thu Aug 12, 2010 9:54 am
reply2spg wrote:In recent years, unions have begun to include in their demands at the collective bargaining table requests for contract provisions which give labor an active voice in determining the goals of a corporation. Although it cannot be denied that labor leaders are highly skilled administrators, it must be recognized that their primary loyalty is and must remain to their membership, not to the corporation. Thus, labor participation in corporate management decisions makes about as
much sense as __________.

Which of the following represents the best continuation of the passage?

1. allowing inmates to make decisions about prison security
2. a senior field officer asking the advice of a junior officer on a question of tactics
3. a university's asking the opinion of the student body on the scheduling of courses
4. Chicago's mayor inviting the state legislators for a ride on the city's subway system
5. the members of a church congregation discussing theology with the minister

OA later
This was a tough one.. luckily got it right with the clock at 2:08,

2 advice 3 opinion 4 inviting 5 discussing....

1 decision making... is the correct as it parallels in action of labour in management.
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by debmalya_dutta » Thu Aug 12, 2010 3:48 pm
Its a case of conflict of interests as evident from the stimulus. Membership to union for labour leaders vs membership to corporate management for labour leaders. This represents a conflict .

Same is potrayed by A
jails are built to restrain prisoners and then asking the prisoners to make decisions to make the jail safe ?? Sounds like real fun for the prisoners.. Conflict of interests :)
reply2spg wrote:In recent years, unions have begun to include in their demands at the collective bargaining table requests for contract provisions which give labor an active voice in determining the goals of a corporation. Although it cannot be denied that labor leaders are highly skilled administrators, it must be recognized that their primary loyalty is and must remain to their membership, not to the corporation. Thus, labor participation in corporate management decisions makes about as
much sense as __________.

Which of the following represents the best continuation of the passage?

1. allowing inmates to make decisions about prison security
2. a senior field officer asking the advice of a junior officer on a question of tactics
3. a university's asking the opinion of the student body on the scheduling of courses
4. Chicago's mayor inviting the state legislators for a ride on the city's subway system
5. the members of a church congregation discussing theology with the minister

OA later
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by goyalsau » Thu Aug 12, 2010 10:12 pm
Please share proper reasoning?

why only A,

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by pradeepkaushal9518 » Sat Aug 14, 2010 9:53 am
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oa is A but i dont agree i will support C.

actually unions have some demands and most of the times are geniune like minimum wages,safety issues,ESI, etc so normally union doesnt listen to management and most of the time they are against it.

likewise students have some demands regarding exam schedules and courses schedules and students are always against the university rules
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by uwhusky » Sat Aug 14, 2010 10:09 am
To learn from CR is to understand the reasoning behind why an answer should be eliminated and why an answer is correct. To argue many different ways how an answer could be interpret as correct is not going to be helpful in tackling CR, and it will confuse you and end up working against you.

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by reply2spg » Sat Aug 14, 2010 10:11 am
I will give my reasoning why I choose A.
reply2spg wrote:In recent years, unions have begun to include in their demands at the collective bargaining table requests for contract provisions which give labor an active voice in determining the goals of a corporation.
This statement tells that previously unions were not included in the decision making and now they are included. Unions are not just included, but they have active voice in determining the goals of a corporation.
reply2spg wrote:Although it cannot be denied that labor leaders are highly skilled administrators, it must be recognized that their primary loyalty is and must remain to their membership, not to the corporation.
This statement tells us that though unions are going to determine goals of a corporation, they will always loyal to their members and will first see members profit. In other words Unions will take decisions which will benefit to corporation but will benefit more and more to their members.
reply2spg wrote:Thus, labor participation in corporate management decisions makes about as much sense as __________.
I can complete the sentence if I find something based on the following points.

1. Some union/group added newly in the decision making of the corporation/organisation.
2. union/group has complete authority to take a decision to achieve corporation goals
3. While taking decisions for the corporation/organisation, union/group will think about its own members.

Which of the following represents the best continuation of the passage?

1. allowing inmates to make decisions about prison security - Goes well with my all 3 points above.
2. a senior field officer asking the advice of a junior officer on a question of tactics - a junior officer is not representing any union/group. Similarly, a senior field officer is not representing any corporation/organisation. Eliminate
3. a university's asking the opinion of the student body on the scheduling of courses - Very good option to hold on. However, this shows slight scope change. If you read passage carefully it says unions are presenting their demands and taking decisions to achieve goal of the corporation. This option talks about the opinion of the students which will not lead to anywhere. That opinion is not going to achieve any goal of the University.
4. Chicago's mayor inviting the state legislators for a ride on the city's subway system - This is totally irrelevent
5. the members of a church congregation discussing theology with the minister - Same as D

OA later[/quote]
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