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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 this company's overall commercial success.
- The company's own employees were genuinely dissatisfied during the period before profits rose.
- The newly increased profits will be reinvested in the company rather than distributed to shareholders.
- Higher quarterly profits are the single most powerful influence on how a company's employees feel.
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