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  3. In this part of the test, you are given a discussion topic. You have 30 seconds to look at the prompt card, an example of which

In this part of the test, you are given a discussion topic. You have 30 seconds to look at the prompt card, an example of which

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问题 In this part of the test, you are given a discussion topic. You have 30 seconds to look at the prompt card, an example of which is below, and then about three minutes to discuss the topic with your partner. After that, the examiner will ask you more questions related to the topic.
For two candidates
Economic Crisis
Your company is planning to lay off a number of old staff due to the terrible economic crisis.
You have been asked to help with running the project.
Discuss the situation together, and decide:
- how the company is to comfort the old staff
- whether there are other ways to help go through the difficulty.
For three candidates
Economic Crisis
Your company is planning to lay off a number of old staff because of the terrible economic crisis.
You have been asked to help with running the project.
Discuss the situation together, and decide:
- how the company is to comfort the old staff
- whether there are other ways to help go through the difficulty
- what can be done to help maintain the company’s image.
Follow-on questions
- If you are the HR manager, what factors will you consider when deciding who should be laid off?
- What difficulties can you expect when talking to those who are to leave?
- What may be the possible outcome of redundancy?
- Do you think reducing staff is a good way to deal with economic crisis?(Why? /Why not?)
- What measures do you think are the most effective to go through economic crisis?(Why?)
选项
答案(For three candidates) A: Hey, I have heard that our company is going to fire a group of people. Is it true? B: Yes, we have to do this, because you know, it’s really a hard time now. C: Oh, but if we just fire them, the other staff would think we’re cold and unsympathetic. A: That is the point. We need to carry out a plan to comfort the staff. B: In my opinion, we could give the laid-off staff three months’ salary and each a recommendation letter to a comparatively lower-paid position. A: That is good, and then the staff would see our concern for them. C: Right, let’s think about if there are any other methods to tackle this adversity. B: OK. I was thinking about canceling all the junket tour and cut down the training fee. A: It may be useful to some extent. C: But it is far from enough. Maybe we can stop all the recruiting programme and ask for help from the bank which has strong relations with our company. B: I’ll keep your suggestion in mind, because it is really a good way to save the image of our company. C: Yes, compared with firing the staff, the other approaches are more humanistic. A: Let’s get down to our work quickly and tackle with the problem together. Follow-on questions - If I were the HR manager, I would consider staff’s capacity, potential, attitude and the contribution to the company. - The biggest difficulty I can think of is the employees’ repulsion to the company’s decision. How we can make them to accept it more easily is really a problem. - The most influential and direct outcome may be the affecting of the morale and the efficiency of the staff. - In my opinion, reducing staff would be the last choice to deal with economic crisis, because it can affect the staff who remained and damage the image of the company. - To go through the crisis, the most important thing to do is to find where the problem lies in and to figure out countermeasures accordingly.
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