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The following appeared in a memo from a vice president of a large, highly diversified company.
"Ten years ago our company had two new office buildings constructed as regional headquarters for two regions. The buildings were erected by different construction companies—Alpha and Zeta. Although the two buildings had identical floor plans, the building constructed by Zeta cost 30 percent more to build. However, that building's expenses for maintenance last year were only half those of Alpha's. In addition, the energy consumption of the Zeta building has been lower than that of the Alpha building every year since its construction. Given these data, plus the fact that Zeta has a stable workforce with little employee turnover, we recommend using Zeta rather than Alpha for our new building project, even though Alpha's bid promises lower construction costs."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
題目翻譯
10年以前我們公司在兩個不同地區(qū)擁有兩座地方辦公建筑。它們由兩家建筑公司--Alpha和Zeta分別建造。盡管兩座建筑的平面布局基本相同,由Zeta所建造的建筑造價高出了30%,去年的維護(hù)費(fèi)用是由Alpha建的樓的兩倍。而且,Zeta大樓建成以來的能耗每年都比Alpha大樓要多。這些數(shù)據(jù),再加上Alpha公司擁有穩(wěn)定的員工隊伍且雇員流動性很小的事實,表明我們應(yīng)該使用Alpha建筑公司而不是Zeta來建造未來所有的建筑工程。
題目分析
論斷:我們今后的項目應(yīng)該用A而不應(yīng)該用Z。因為十年前A和Z分別在兩個不同的地方為我們建了兩個辦公樓。盡管兩個樓有完全一樣的地面設(shè)計,但是Z公司多花了30%,而且去年它那樓的維修費(fèi)用是A樓的兩倍,每年的能量消耗也比A樓高,另外A員工流失少有穩(wěn)定的勞動力。
·論斷前提是A比Z好,論是論者沒有提供任何有關(guān)兩家公司目前的規(guī)模,技術(shù)以及員工情況。
·論據(jù)沒有說服力。首先,兩個樓在兩個不同的地房,地質(zhì)條件的不同,以及建造時的氣候不同都會影響到樓的造價,以及相關(guān)的費(fèi)用。第二,地面設(shè)計一樣不意味著兩個樓一樣,可能Z公司的樓更高,設(shè)計更周全。第三樓的用途和使用量直接決定了樓的維修費(fèi)用和能量消耗,可能Z樓使用更多一些。
·論者用的例子是十年前的,十年的時間兩家公司可能都變化挺大,當(dāng)時的情況不足以說明現(xiàn)在,以及以后。而關(guān)于穩(wěn)定的勞動力,這并不能保證A的工作效率一定高。
論斷的結(jié)論武斷。即使A比Z好,也不意味著都要用A。
結(jié)論:論者沒有足夠的證據(jù)支持自己的觀點(diǎn),單憑早年膚淺的資料沒有說服力。論者應(yīng)該進(jìn)一步了解兩家公司目前的狀況,并根據(jù)具體的項目特征選擇適合的公司。
提綱參考
1. Z所建造的可能質(zhì)量好,并且當(dāng)?shù)氐牟牧细F。去年維修費(fèi)用高可能前幾年都低,應(yīng)全面比較。能耗高與人和氣候有關(guān),并未必與樓有關(guān)。
2. A員工穩(wěn)定不說明工作好。應(yīng)該考察A、Z的全部成績,而不只是一棟樓的情況。