All too often, companies hire outside consultants to suggest ways for the company to operate more efficiently. If companies were to spend more time listening to their own employees, such consultants would be unnecessary.
While it is important for companies to listen to their own employees when crafting decisions about company policies or corporate culture, sometimes it is necessary to utilize the servies of outside consultant to step away fromm the issue at hand and receive an unbiased opinion. Ultimately there are three situations in which these two sources of information should be used within a company. First, when a company is trying to make decisions about cost cutting, outside consultants may be used because they can keep emotions out of the decision when reocmmending solutions. Second, When trying to develop a more efficient system it could be helpful to utilize both the feedback of outside consultants as well as the employees to create a unique solution that benefits all stakeholders. Finally, when making decisions about internal policies that must be followed by emloyees, these decsions should place a heavy weight on emplyee feedback.
The first situation mentioned where the use of outside consultants should be relied on is making decisions that are necessary to the operation of the business but may rely on unpopular solutions, such as layoffs. Decisions like these are hard for any manager to make, and where to make the layoffs could become an issue where personal biases may arrise. In this situations the consultants could come in, spend time analyzing all the seperate departments of the company, and identify some of the redundancies that may be minimized. Of course, while this is often criticised as a "cold and heartless" method of cunducting business, usually in this situation there aren't many other options for the company to move forward with. Another way that the risks of this situation can be minimized, is to appoint a group of advisors before hand to create a final plan after the consultants recommendations.
The next situations in which the services of consultants may be used in conjunction with the feedback of employees, is when trying to make systems more efficient. The input of both groups is vitaly important in this situation because while the consultants may introduce ground breaking ideas, there needs to be support among the employees to implement the plan. One example in which this situation would appear is company restructuring. While it may be nice to have an outside source look at the commpany and identify where more efficent communication methods could be implemented these are not always the most resonable for the people that have to use the system. This is when a reiterative feedback process between the consultants and the employees would be used to identify what is the easiest for the employees and what are the most reasonable changes that can be made within the realm of possibilities.
The final situation, which should be soley based on the feedback of the employees, is when making decisions about internal office policies. One example of this recenly is google's policy on politics within the workplace and how to make the campus safe for people with all different veiwpoints. This first came to the light of the public when one employee, Damore, wrote a controversial memo criticsing some members of the google community, for which he was fired. This brought into question on how should situations like this be handled in the future and what stance should Google take. for this, employee feedback would be the momst helpful in deciding what would make them feel safe, productive, and happy in the workplace.
In conclusion, the use of consultants is not a black and white issue, there are many different situations that arrise in a company and many different solutions to these issues. While some dicisions may need to rely heavily on the unbiased opinions of an outside organization, others, such as in the case of Google, need the feedback of their empoyees to make the most informed decisions.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, if, look, may, second, so, well, while, in conclusion, of course, such as, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 37.0 19.5258426966 189% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 28.0 12.4196629213 225% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 26.0 11.3162921348 230% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 34.0 33.0505617978 103% => OK
Preposition: 96.0 58.6224719101 164% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3263.0 2235.4752809 146% => OK
No of words: 637.0 442.535393258 144% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.12244897959 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.02382911018 4.55969084622 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80552858434 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 283.0 215.323595506 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.444270015699 0.4932671777 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1018.8 704.065955056 145% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 28.0 23.0359550562 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 45.3039550934 60.3974514979 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 148.318181818 118.986275619 125% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.9545454545 23.4991977007 123% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.81818181818 5.21951772744 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 7.80617977528 128% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.255637854807 0.243740707755 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0825702047848 0.0831039109588 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0517401275427 0.0758088955206 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.152585481853 0.150359130593 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0538632596323 0.0667264976115 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.2 14.1392134831 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 48.8420337079 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.1743820225 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.01 12.1639044944 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.47 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 139.0 100.480337079 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.2143820225 118% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.