In the effort to fire a Civil Service employee, his or her manager may have to spend up to $100,000 of tax money. Since Civil Service employees

Sasha
#1. July 1st, 2007, at 10:03 PM.

D

Talgat
#2. July 2nd, 2007, at 10:58 AM.

B

Ardhendu
#3. July 2nd, 2007, at 12:14 PM.

B

harry
#4. July 2nd, 2007, at 3:02 PM.

a

Nandish
#5. July 2nd, 2007, at 3:34 PM.

B

San
#6. July 2nd, 2007, at 4:08 PM.

B

Rajkumar
#7. July 2nd, 2007, at 4:55 PM.

A

mukund
#8. July 3rd, 2007, at 3:48 AM.

B

Byron
#9. July 3rd, 2007, at 7:32 AM.

B

robin
#10. July 3rd, 2007, at 10:39 PM.

b

Ashwani
#11. July 4th, 2007, at 12:44 AM.

Answer please !!

gaurav
#12. July 5th, 2007, at 9:17 AM.

It must b A only as statement II and III has no reference in the stem

Naina
#13. July 5th, 2007, at 11:24 AM.

answer is B

AMANDEV
#14. July 5th, 2007, at 1:25 PM.

I go for the first one a

DC800
#15. July 6th, 2007, at 10:15 PM.

The correct answer is B

I is correct. “Civil Service employees know how hard it is to fire them” (this is job security), therefore, “they tend to loaf” (poor work behavior). The job security has a negative impact on work performance.

II is incorrect. The author does not actually state this one way or the other, he only points out the flaws of the system. Under the current system, it may not make sense to fire them because at $100,000 per employee, it is probably more efficient to keep them on. If the system were fixed, we don’t know if the author thinks employee performance would improve and therefore remove the need to fire them, or if employees would continue to perform poorly.

III is correct. The paragraph is only talking about Civil Service employees until the last sentence where it mentions the government. If most government workers were not civil service employees, than the function of the civil service would do little to impact overall government efficiency one way or the other.

the Fonz
#16. July 23rd, 2007, at 10:32 PM.

and the answer is .. B

saurabh
#17. July 30th, 2007, at 4:28 PM.

b

nk
#18. September 11th, 2007, at 2:48 PM.

I think its only A

III is inconclusive because
1) assuming its true - it does contribute to the govt being in-efficient as most civil servants because of job security do loaf and do no work and that makes the govt inefficient as these guys form a major part of the govt.

2) assuming its false: most govt employees are not civil servants, this does not mean that the govt can still not be efficient. negating the assumption does not weaken the conclusion(as it should if this inference is correct). The govt can still be in-efficient for allwoing such a system to exist where civil servants are allowed to have such attitudes and get away with it.

so my answer is A

Manisha Sachdeva
#19. June 19th, 2008, at 10:01 AM.

I think answer is B……Both I and III are correct

Patel
#20. June 19th, 2008, at 10:13 AM.

I go with option B

ankurchawla1983
#21. June 20th, 2008, at 2:34 AM.

I’ll go with B

amity
#22. June 22nd, 2008, at 5:59 PM.

B

navyadwkr
#23. June 23rd, 2008, at 12:00 PM.

I think itz A

jay
#24. July 10th, 2008, at 10:31 PM.

E
The statement says that there is a cost involved in
firing the employees. It does not say that there is
job security. Only III can be inferred from the general
statement about government efficiency