PrepTest 30, Section 3, Question 16
Sales manager: The highest priority should be given to the needs of the sales department, because without successful sales the company as a whole would fail.
Sales manager: The highest priority should be given to the needs of the sales department, because without successful sales the company as a whole would fail.
Shipping manager: There are several departments other than sales that also must function successfully for the company to succeed. It is impossible to give the highest priority to all of them.
Sales manager: The highest priority should be given to the needs of the sales department, because without successful sales the company as a whole would fail.
Shipping manager: There are several departments other than sales that also must function successfully for the company to succeed. It is impossible to give the highest priority to all of them.
Sales manager: The highest priority should be given to the needs of the sales department, because without successful sales the company as a whole would fail.
The shipping manager criticizes the sales manager's argument by pointing out
that the sales department taken by itself is not critical to the company's success as a whole
the ambiguity of the term "highest priority"
that departments other than sales are more vital to the company's success
an absurd consequence of its apparent assumption that a department's necessity earns it the highest priority
that the sales manager makes a generalization from an atypical case
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