PrepTest 81, Section 2, Question 8
Manager: The only employees who should receive bonuses this year are those who were exceptionally productive over the past year. Liang is an excellent account executive, but she works in a corporate division that has failed to meet its productivity goals for the year. Thus Liang should not receive a bonus this year.
Manager: The only employees who should receive bonuses this year are those who were exceptionally productive over the past year. Liang is an excellent account executive, but she works in a corporate division that has failed to meet its productivity goals for the year. Thus Liang should not receive a bonus this year.
Manager: The only employees who should receive bonuses this year are those who were exceptionally productive over the past year. Liang is an excellent account executive, but she works in a corporate division that has failed to meet its productivity goals for the year. Thus Liang should not receive a bonus this year.
Manager: The only employees who should receive bonuses this year are those who were exceptionally productive over the past year. Liang is an excellent account executive, but she works in a corporate division that has failed to meet its productivity goals for the year. Thus Liang should not receive a bonus this year.
The reasoning in the manager's argument is flawed in that the argument
fails to take into account the possibility that the standards by which productivity is judged might vary across different divisions of a corporation
overlooks the possibility that a corporation as a whole can have a profitable year even though one division of the corporation does not
fails to justify its use of one group's performance as the basis for a conclusion about a wholly different group
reaches a conclusion about the performance of one member of a group merely on the basis of the performance of the group as a whole
takes for granted that an employee who has an unproductive year will not be exceptionally productive in subsequent years
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