PrepTest 52, Section 2, Question 19
Educator: It has been argued that our professional organization should make decisions about important issues�such as raising dues and taking political stands�by a direct vote of all members rather than by having members vote for officers who in turn make the decisions. This would not, however, be the right way to decide these matters, for the vote of any given individual is much more likely to determine organizational policy by influencing the election of an officer than by influencing the result of a direct vote on a single issue.
Educator: It has been argued that our professional organization should make decisions about important issues�such as raising dues and taking political stands�by a direct vote of all members rather than by having members vote for officers who in turn make the decisions. This would not, however, be the right way to decide these matters, for the vote of any given individual is much more likely to determine organizational policy by influencing the election of an officer than by influencing the result of a direct vote on a single issue.
Educator: It has been argued that our professional organization should make decisions about important issues�such as raising dues and taking political stands�by a direct vote of all members rather than by having members vote for officers who in turn make the decisions. This would not, however, be the right way to decide these matters, for the vote of any given individual is much more likely to determine organizational policy by influencing the election of an officer than by influencing the result of a direct vote on a single issue.
Educator: It has been argued that our professional organization should make decisions about important issues�such as raising dues and taking political stands�by a direct vote of all members rather than by having members vote for officers who in turn make the decisions. This would not, however, be the right way to decide these matters, for the vote of any given individual is much more likely to determine organizational policy by influencing the election of an officer than by influencing the result of a direct vote on a single issue.
Which one of the following principles would, if valid, most help to justify the educator's reasoning?
No procedure for making organizational decisions should allow one individual's vote to weigh more than that of another.
Outcomes of organizational elections should be evaluated according to their benefit to the organization as a whole, not according to the fairness of the methods by which they are produced.
Important issues facing organizations should be decided by people who can devote their full time to mastering the information relevant to the issues.
An officer of an organization should not make a particular decision on an issue unless a majority of the organization's members would approve of that decision.
An organization's procedures for making organizational decisions should maximize the power of each member of the organization to influence the decisions made.
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