Melissa: We must become more flexible if we are to meet our personnel needs and maximize efficiency. In the past, we simply hired as many full-time employees as we thought we needed. But, this focus has caused us to lose many valuable employees. We should offer flextime and job sharing options to help us keep and attract talented employees.

Jennifer: Alternatives to traditional job design approaches can lead to significant cost savings. We are expected to have 500 more employees than our current facility allows next year, but my analysis reveals 600 of our employees could telecommute. Therefore, we can avoid costly actions such as moving our offices or building extensions if these workers became telecommuters. Job sharing can also reduce facility costs as well as payroll costs.

Which of the following, if true, would strengthen Melissa's argument?

A. Flextime arrangements are more common in service industries than in other industries.
B. The number of employees interested in flextime is higher than the number of employees interested in job sharing.
C. Employees tend to believe that employees in nontraditional job arrangements are the most vulnerable to layoffs.
D. Most of the jobs at the organization do not require the employee to be physically present.
E. A large number of people with desirable job skills cannot commit to taking full-time positions.

option 'D' is correct

Explanation: both their argument reveals that majority of the staff can work from home, thereby making their recruitment more flexible and open, without extension of physical building.

the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.

the answer to this question