[讨论] 每日一贴 3.21

apan

issue 36
"Businesses and other organizations have overemphasized the importance of working as a team. Clearly, in any human group, it is the strong individual, the person with the most commitment and energy, who gets things done."

argument 55
The following appreared as part of an article in a health club trade publication.
"After experiencing a decline in usage by its members, Healthy Heart fitness center built an indoor pool. Since usage did not increase significantly, it appears that health club managers should adopt another approach -- lowering membership fees rather than installing expensive new features."

apan

issue 36.       
“企业和其他组织过分强调了团队工作的重要性。很明显，在任何人类团体里，都是最强的个人，那个具有最多义务和能量的人，把事情完成的。”  

argument 55
一家健身中心的商业刊物：
"在经历了其会员的使用率的下降后，Healthy Heart健身中心建了一个室内游泳池。由于使用率没有明显的上升，看来健身中心应该采用其他的方法，降低会员费而不是增加新的设施。"

apan

这回AA的序号对了吗?
原来的错了是因为加入了2001的新题,所以序号打乱了
sorry,我才发现^Q^

gladys

Argument 55

In order to introduce its own brand of coffee, Excelsior Company memorandum
proposes as the the best strategy conducting a temporary sales promotion that
offers free samples, price reductions, and discount coupons for the new brand.
This memorandum is based on three facts: (1) coffee is an expensive food item;
(2) there are already many established brands of coffee; (3) Superior, the leading
coffee company used just such a sales promotion. This argument, as it stands,
shows little business shrewdness, for three reasons:

(1) The arguement unfairly assumes that a promotional plan works for one company
will also works for another.

(2) The argument rests on the assumption that Excelsior Company has the ability to
carry out a promotional strategy similar to that of Superior

(3) The argument took it for granted that the temporary sales promotion employed
by Superior is a successful one. However, no evidence is provided in this argument
to support this assumption.

gladys

Issue 36

Whether businesses and other organizations have overemphasized the importance of working as a team is a complex one and with no ready answer. In my view, virtually
every business operation is a blending of teamwork and individual autonomy on work.
The optimal point of such blending lies in somewhere between one pole of extreme emphasis on working as a team and the other of extreme emphasis on individual autonomy, depending on the nature of the businesses and the real situation they are in.

1. A business plagued by too much emphasis on working as team may breed inefficiency, bureacracy as well as stifling individual initiatives and creativity.

2. Carried to its extreme, individual autonomy can be counterproductive.
For example, the employee's efforts can not be effectively combined toward fulfilling
the business goal.

3. Managers are well advised to keep flexibility in the constantly changing business environment and learn to harmoniously combine both team work and individual efforts.