A manager cannot extract the best

Answer choices

1. A

   Bad Effect Match6% picked this

   Increased responsibility can improve a person's sense of how power should

   We're trying to reinforce the idea that giving someone increased responsibility led to them wanting to do a good job for its own sake. This is saying it leads to them having an improved sense of how power should be used.

   6%
2. B

   Out of Scope: prestige5% picked this

   It is often the case that the desire for prestige is more powerful than the

   We're trying to reinforce the idea that giving someone increased responsibility led to them wanting to do a good job for its own sake. We never talked about "prestige" and don't want to stretch what we've read too far. Just because you've been delegated a responsibility doesn't mean you've gotten an uptick in prestige. Also, "often" is a little strong, given that we only have one example being described in this prompt.

   5%
3. C

   Correct71% picked this

   In some cases one's effectiveness in a particular role can be enhanced by a partial

   Why this is right

   This has lovably soft language ("in some cases"), but is otherwise a sneaky one to warm up to. We're trying to reinforce the idea that giving someone increased responsibility led to them wanting to do a good job for its own sake. This is talking about that, but via the manager's perspective. When you delegate to an employee some decisions that previously had to be made by the manager, you've experienced a "partial relinquishing of control". And doing such delegating is one of the best ways to achieve an employee's being motivated to do a good job for its own sake . A manager's job is to extract the best performance from employees, and the key to extracting the best performance is when employees want to do a good job for its own sake. So a manager's effectiveness at extracting the best performance from her employees can be increased by partially relinquishing control and delegating some of her responsibilities to her subordinates. .

   Skill tested: Most Supported · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

   71%
4. D

   Opposite, if anything3% picked this

   People who carry out decisions are in the best position to determine what those

   Managers are people who carry out decisions, and according to this answer managers are in the best position to determine what those decisions should be. This seems like a mismatch for the paragraph, in which the manager was delegating some of her decisions to her subordinates.

   3%
5. E

   Opposite, if anything15% picked this

   Business works best by harnessing the self-interest of individuals to benefit the company

   We were told that "avoiding getting fired" and "receiving a financial reward" were not good ways to get the best performance from employees, so those sound like techniques in which business doesn't not work best. And yet, those techniques attempt to harness the self-interest of individuals. It's in one's self-interest to not get fired or to receive a financial reward.

   15%