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The author concludes that stiff competition can undermine employee performance. This is based on the fact that if one competitor is perceived to be clearly superior, other competitors become anxious and doubt their own ability to perform.

The conclusion asserts that competition can hurt employee performance. But the premise establishes only that competition might lead to other competitors becoming anxious and having self-doubt about their performance. Do these feelings actually undermine performance? We have no reason to think so. Maybe those feelings actually spur people to perform better? To make the argument valid, we want to establish that feelings of anxiety or self-doubt about one’s ability to perform undermine employee performance.

(A) doesn’t establish anything about what undermines employee performance. Since neither this answer nor the premise establishes that something undermines employee performance, it cannot make the argument valid.

(B) doesn’t establish anything about what undermines employee performance. Since neither this answer nor the premise establishes that something undermines employee performance, it cannot make the argument valid.

(C) doesn’t establish anything about what undermines employee performance. Since neither this answer nor the premise establishes that something undermines employee performance, it cannot make the argument valid. In addition, (C) tells us what improves performance. We’re trying to conclude that something hurts performance.

(D) connects doubting one’s own ability to perform to undermining employee performance. If (D) is true, stiff competition, because it can lead to self-doubt about ability to perform, hurts employee performance.

(E) doesn’t establish anything about what undermines employee performance. Since neither this answer nor the premise establishes that something undermines employee performance, it cannot make the argument valid.

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