xyxxyxxyx

I don't agree with A. It does not fail to bring the "intended changes" but the "intened results".
rebecw 发表于 2011-8-1 06:24

    我想你是把这里的“intended changes”理解为作者所反对的labor rate等同于labor cost的观点下的“intended changes”了

其实，按照作者的态度，他所指的“intended changes”应该是不只是cutting wage, 而应该是能实现improved performance的changes, 所以a是对的

fyf19871214

反对A,因为一个system有新的problems，不表明fail.

wenbowei911

我想你是把这里的“intended changes”理解为作者所反对的labor rate等同于labor cost的观点下的 ...
xyxxyxxyx 发表于 2011-8-2 20:40

   
同意这个思路，实际上问题的核心就在于如何理解compensation systems了，如果只是理解为降低劳动成本labor rates，显然A不对。但从何处能看出作者将compensation systems包括improved performance呢？这是A问题的核心！

samuelxie

E

说不清楚，只是就觉得

jingyunmao

agree with A

Suggesting that a company’s

performance can be improved in

some other way than by altering its

(55)     pay system may be empirically cor-

rect but contrary to the consultants’

interests.

文中强调了尽管consulting firms have broadened practice,但是他们仍然倾向于建议companies to alter their pay system，主要是上面highlight的原因。

而且文章的最后一句话也表明了作者认为consulting firms这么做的理由是continue to have work solving theproblems that result from their advice

coffee0921

我一开始选的是E, 后来看了答案仔细思考了一下觉得应该是A:
选E的唯一依据是如下的一句话:
First, although some of these consulting firms have recently broadened their practices beyond the area of compensation, their mainstay continues to be advising companies on changing their compensation practices.
仔细推敲就会发现这句话WEAKEN选项E而非SUPPORT选项E.
这句话的意思是BRODEN THE CONSULTING FIRMS PRACTICES BEYOND THE AREA OF COMPENSATION并不能使这些CONSULTING FIMRS改变他们之前的选择:  advising companies on changing their compensation practices. 一句话: Whether the consulting firms brodens their pratices makes no difference on their choices to advise companies on changing their compensation practices.
所以E确It might be different if the consulting firms were less narrowly specialized.肯定是错的. 因为IT DOES NOT MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE HOW BROAD THE CONSULTING FIRMS ARE SPECIALIZED.
觉得象是在考CR

wangliming

First, although some of these con-
sulting firms have recently broadened
their practices beyond the area of
compensation, their mainstay con-
(50)      tinues to be advising companies on
changing their compensation prac-
tices
这里说虽然这些咨询公司拓展了业务，但是其mainstay依然是基于 compensation consulting，所以期出发点还是贴合的。
Suggesting that a company’s
performance can be improved in
some other way than by altering its
(55)      pay system may be empirically cor-
rect but contrary to the consultants’
interests.
指出公司的业绩可以通过一些其它的途径得到改善除了改变pay system，以上内容可能是超级对，但是这和公司的incentive不符合，也就是应和了最前面那段
The myth is also
perpetuated by the compensation-
consulting industry, which has its own
(45)      incentives to keep such myths alive.

那么文章指出的是：咨询公司是基于自己的incentive才做出的这样的advise，所以即使其像E所说那样缩减业务，也依然改变不了本性，依然会提出违背自己所知正确决定的advise，从而perpetuate the myth alive

所以我支持A，

leslielu

我还是觉得E对，

A说的是没有改变   intended changes in companies’ compensation systems，这明显是错的，compensation system是改变的，没有改变的是labor cost，

咨询公司的办法就是通过改变compensation system来减少labor cost，本文想说的是这种方法不行。

如果考试遇到，我会选E。

sunincity

最后一句话和A的意思是不一样的吧~~

A说的是fail to bring about the ... changes in ... compensation systems 也就是说没能带来系统的改善
最后一句话说的是 changes in compensation creat new problems 系统的改善又带来了新的问题~就说明系统是可以改善的~

所以我觉得该选E~