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Manager: The free tea we serve the fitters costs this unit forty thousand rupees a year and adds nothing whatever to what we turn out. It should be stopped. Supervisor: The ten minutes over tea is when one fitter tells another which pump has begun to knock and which belt is fraying. Stop the tea and you keep your forty thousand and lose the warning. The supervisor answers the manager by

Competition practiceLogical / Critical
  • Aidentifying a benefit of the practice that the manager's account of it leaves out
  • Bdisputing the manager's figure for what the tea costs the unit
  • Cshowing that the manager has taken an effect for its cause
  • Dappealing to what other units in the trade are known to do

Step-by-Step Solution

The manager weighs a cost of forty thousand against a benefit he puts at nothing. The supervisor does not touch the cost; he adds an item to the other side of the scale — the early warning of failing equipment that the tea break happens to carry — so the balance the manager struck was drawn up short. He accepts the figure as given, alleges no confusion of cause with effect, and cites no other unit's practice.
Answer: A) identifying a benefit of the practice that the manager's account of it leaves out

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