SóProvas

ID
28840
Banca
CESGRANRIO
Órgão
CAPES
Ano
2008
Provas
Disciplina
Inglês
Assuntos

How to dig out from the information avalanche
Majority of workers feel overwhelmed by deluge of data,
survey finds
By Eve Tahmincioglu
updated 8:18 p.m. ET March 16, 2008
Don't expect Shaun Osher, the CEO of Core Group
Marketing in New York, to answer your e-mail right away.
He has stopped responding to e-mails every minute and
only checks his e-mail account twice a day. He also started
turning off his BlackBerry during meetings.
This tactic has made him so much more productive
that earlier this year he held a meeting with his staff of 50
and "strongly suggested" that they stop relying so heavily
on e-mail and actually start calling clients on the phone.
And, he requested his employees put cell phones and
PDAs on silent mode during meetings, as well as curtail
the common practice of cc-ing everybody when sending
out an e-mail. "There was so much redundancy, so much
unnecessary work," he explains. "One person could handle
an issue that should take two minutes, but when an email
goes out and five people get cc-ed, then everybody
responds to it and there's a snowball effect."
It's not that Osher has anything against technology. In
fact, he loves it. The problem is, last year he realized he
was inundated with so many e-mails and so much
information in general that he began to experience data
overload. "In the beginning, e-mail and all this data was a
great phenomenon, revolutionizing what we do. But the
pendulum has swung way too much to the other side," he
maintains. "We're less productive."
Osher isn't the only one out there under a data
avalanche. Thanks to technological innovations, you can
be talking to a customer on your cell phone, answering a
LinkedIn invitation on your laptop, and responding to email
on your PDA all at the same time. Besides, during
tough economic times, who will want to miss any
information when your job could be on the line if you indulge
in the luxury of being offline? Turns out, seven out of 10
office workers in the United States feel overwhelmed by
information in the workplace, and more than two in five
say they are headed for a data "breaking point," according
to a recently released Workplace Productivity Survey.
Mike Walsh, CEO of LexisNexis U.S. Legal Markets,
says there are a host of reasons we're all on the information
brink: "exponential growth of the size of the information
'haystack,' the immensity and immediacy of digital
communications, and the fact that professionals are not
being provided with sufficient tools and training to help
them keep pace with the growing information burden."
Ellen Kossek, a professor from Michigan State, believes
we are less productive in this age of 24-7 technology, and
our multitasking mentality has spawned a "not-mentallypresent"
society. "We're becoming an attention-deficit
disorder society switching back and forth like crazy,"
Kossek says. "We're connected all the time. We're
working on planes, in coffee shops, working on the
weekends. Work is very seductive, but yet we're actually
less effective."
The key to getting your head above the data flood,
according to workplace experts, is managing and reducing
the information you're bombarded with.

© 2008 MSNBC Interactive - (slightly adapted)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23636252/

"This tactic" (line 6) refers to which of Shaun Osher's behavior?

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Comentários

  • A) WRONG (Holding meetings with his staff of fifty people.) - It is wrong, once the affirmation in yellow does not refers to a tatic, but about the number of people the CEO holds in his meetings.

    B) WRONG (Avoiding copying everybody when sending out an e-mail.) - It is wrong, once the CEO does not avoids facing everybody when sending e-mail, he avoids sending lot of e-mail in an only day.

    C) WRONG (Calling clients on the phone and not relying so heavily on e-mail.) - It is wrong, because this passage is just an advice suggested by the CEO after the success he experimented by apply his tatic mentioned in the first paragraph.

    D) RIGHT (Checking his e-mail account only twice a day and turning off his Blackberry during meetings.) - It is right, because though this question mentions the passage "this tatic" in the line "line 6" the referred tatic does not finds in the same paragraph as line 6, but in the previews one, once the line 6 is only a reference about the experienced tatic seen in the first paragraph.

    E) WRONG (Responding to e-mails every minute and putting cell phones and PDAs on silent mode during meetings.) - It is wrong, once answering e-mail is just exactly what his tatic intends to avoid, it means, is just the opposite of his tatic.

  • -d

    this tactic:

    The relative pronoun "this" fulfills an anaphoric role when it binds a sentence structure to the passage's topical themse. Anaphora is an expression that relies on another contextual expression. The requirement for an expression to be considered anaphoric rests entirely on its contextual usage.

  • GAB: LETRA D

    Complementando!

    Fonte: Thaís Medrado

    O texto nos traz o fato de que a tecnologia trouxe demasiada informação para as pessoas, fazendo com estas não saibam lidar direito e, tampouco, possuam ferramentas suficientes para auxiliá-las neste processo. A partir da introdução do tema, pede-se para que seja assinalada a alternativa a que refere this tactic (esta tática) se refere.

    ===

    A - Holding meetings with his staff of fifty people.

    • INCORRETA

    • O termo no enunciado da questão se refere aos novos hábitos que Shaun Osher desenvolveu. Assim que se viu sobrecarregado, decidiu checar seus e-mails apenas duas vezes por semana e a desligar seu Blackberry durante as reuniões. Além disso, orienta seus colaboradores a fazerem ações similares. (Vide linhas 3-4).

    ===

    B - Avoiding copying everybody when sending out an e-mail.

    • INCORRETA

    • No texto é citado o trecho da assertiva, mas no segundo parágrafo, não sendo este referente ao que a expressão da questão se refere. This tactic se refere a como Shaun Osher lida com suas informações e tecnologia: ele checa seu e-mail apenas duas vezes por dia, além de desligar seu Blackberry durante reuniões.

    ===

    C - Calling clients on the phone and not relying so heavily on e-mail.

    • INCORRETA

    • De acordo com o trecho em destaque do enunciado, Shaun Osher quis se referir à sua mudança em relação a como lida com as informações e tecnologia que recebe, sendo que atualmente checa seus e-mails apenas duas vezes por dia e não liga seu Black berry durante reuniões. O trecho em questão deu como respostas, em tradução livre, "ligar mais para os clientes e evitar depender tanto de e-mails", não sendo esta a assertiva a ser marcada.

    ===

    D - Checking his e-mail account only twice a day and turning off his Blackberry during meetings.

    • CORRETA

    • O texto nos traz informações de como a tecnologia e a avalanche de informações causam certo desequilíbrio nos profissionais.No primeiro parágrafo temos a introdução do tópico, pois é onde citam que o CEO Shaun Osher buscou uma mudança de hábitos, levando-o a checar seus e-mails apenas duas vezes por dia e a desligar seu Blackberry durante reuniões, referindo-se esta última parte à expressão this tactic. (Vide linhas 3-4)

    ===

    E - Responding to e-mails every minute and putting cell phones and PDAs on silent mode during meetings.

    • INCORRETA

    • De acordo com o texto, Shaun Osher dá sugestões para seus colaboradores sobre como ser mais produtivo e lidar com tecnologia e informações. Para chegar a esta parte do texto, introduziu que Shaun Osher foi quem teve a ideia de iniciar algumas mudanças de hábitos, sendo this tactic referente a checar o e-mail apenas duas vezes por dia e desligar seu Blackberry durante reuniões.