LSAT 140 – Section 2 – Question 18

LSAT 140 - Section 2 - Question 18

December 2013

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Question
QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT140 S2 Q18
+LR
+Exp
Most strongly supported +MSS
Causal Reasoning +CausR
A
11%
159
B
11%
159
C
2%
155
D
8%
159
E
68%
166
147
156
166
 +Harder 149.441 +SubsectionMedium

Psychologists have found that the implementation of policies allowing work schedules to be tailored to individuals’ needs does not typically increase managers’ job satisfaction or their efficiency—although this may be because most managers already have the autonomy to adjust their own schedules. But these flexible-schedule policies do increase job satisfaction, productivity, and attendance among nonmanagerial employees. The benefits dissipate somewhat over time, however, and they are reduced even further if schedules are too elastic.

Summary
Psychologists have discovered that allowing flexible work schedules does not cause managers’ job satisfaction or efficiency to increase. These flexible schedules do cause job satisfaction, productivity, and attendance to increase among nonmanagerial employees. However, these benefits decrease over time and are reduced even further if schedules are too flexible.

Strongly Supported Conclusions
The benefits of flexible work schedule policies are better observed among nonmanagerial employees than among managers.

A
Implementing flexible schedules would be an effective means of increasing the job satisfaction and efficiency of managers who do not already have scheduling autonomy.
We don’t know if flexible schedules would in fact increase satisfaction and efficiency among managers. We can’t assume that the explanation given for why managers don’t reflect these benefits is true, it is only suggested as one possible explanation.
B
Flexible-schedule policies should be expected to improve the morale of some individual employees but not the overall morale of a company’s workforce.
We don’t know if flexible schedule policies would not improve the overall morale of a company. We could reasonable assume that overall morale would improve if the morale of the nonmanagerial workforce improves.
C
Flexible schedules should be expected to substantially improve a company’s productivity and employee satisfaction in the long run.
We don’t know if flexible schedule policies improve satisfaction in the long run. We are told that the benefits of these policies decrease over time.
D
There is little correlation between managers’ job satisfaction and their ability to set their own work schedules.
We don’t know if there is in fact little correlation between these two ideas. The explanation offered for why managers don’t experience increased job satisfaction or efficiency is only one possible explanation.
E
The typical benefits of flexible-schedule policies cannot be reliably inferred from observations of the effects of such policies on managers.
The effects of flexible schedule policies cannot be observed among managers because these managers did not experience an increase in job satisfaction or efficiency. On the other hand, nonmanagerial employees did see increases in these areas.

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