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 know how hard it is to fire them, they tend to loaf. This explains in large part why the government is so inefficient.
It can be properly inferred on the basis of the statements above that the author believes which of the following?
I. Too much job security can have a negative influence on workers.
II. More government workers should be fired.
III. Most government workers are Civil Service employees.
(A) I only
(B) I and III only
(C) II only
(D) I, II, and III
(E) III only
D
B
B
a
B
B
A
B
B
b
Answer please !!
It must b A only as statement II and III has no reference in the stem
answer is B
I go for the first one a
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.
and the answer is .. B
b
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
I think answer is B……Both I and III are correct
I go with option B
I’ll go with B
B
I think itz A
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
a
A
I. in one job security is mentioned whereas in paragraph its not . but if an employer finds it hard to fire an employee then its directly related to the job security. Hence it can be inferred very easily that job security does make people to loaf around.
II.. This i guess is all the way wrong as firing an employee can be a solution for a particular reason.But firing many employees is rubbish.If the system can be scrutinized then all will work in a nice way .
III. May be right and may be wrong as not much data is given in the paragraph.and yes it is mentioned that government is very inefficient , it doesnt mean most of the employees belong to civil services.
Most of the civil services employees have high post.
So if they are lazy whole department under them becomes lazy and hence the government works with inefficiency.so III is also wrong
I would go with B
A
Option B
Option A
Author indicates about the inefficiencies because of certain undue advantages govt employees enjoy. May be a too much of job security.
I agree with Mr. Gaurav
Correct option is A