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The company's quarterly profits have increased. The board's spokesperson therefore concludes that the company's employees must now be happier than they were before.
The reasoning above depends on which one of the following assumptions?
- A rise in the company's profits is accompanied by an increase in its employees' satisfaction.
- Profits are not the only legitimate measure of a company's overall success.
- The company's employees were dissatisfied during the period before profits rose.
- The increased profits will be reinvested rather than distributed to shareholders.
- Higher profits are the single most powerful influence on how employees feel.
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