题目
Some companies give a higher salary to CEO than the common employees. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
复现情况
重复2016年10月29日、2020年12月31日原题(老雅2016年度、2020年度范文集有本题完整解析及高分范文)。
解析
机构的高级管理人员的收入是否应该比一般工人或工作人员高很多?可能多数人的答案是肯定的。在国外企业(比如Microsoft, IBM, Google等),高管人员收入大大超过普通员工,当然其承担压力也是一般员工所无法比拟的。那么,到底哪些因素决定高管收入要大大超过普通员工呢?可能很多同学对这个问题没有什么头绪,甚至想不出什么内容来,更不要说讲出一些有逻辑有条理的道理来。那么,此时此刻,请再次回读老雅公众号(ieltswriting4u)的所有文章,深刻体会老雅提出的“三大层次”理论(物质层次、心理层次、社会层次),然后将其应用到现在这个题目中来。
很清楚,公司企业高管承担的责任更大,要管理的事务更多,与只需做好本职工作的普通员工相比,需要投入更多时间和精力,这无疑是高管应该得到更高收入的第一条原因,即物质原因。其次,高管们要对公司企业的业绩负责,在激烈的市场竞争中确保公司企业的良性运作,他们要承担的心理压力要大得多,这当然就是他们理应获得更高收入的第二条原因,即心理原因。第三,千军易得,一将难求,普通员工容易找到,而优秀的高管却是稀缺人才,按照供求关系决定价格的基本理论,这难道不是高管收入理应大大高于普通员工的第三条原因,即社会原因吗?
讨论完这些原因后,我们可以在最后一段总结观点,即高管的确应该可以拿高薪。这样写自然是没有问题的。但我们也可以讨论题目中蕴含的相反观点:即有些高管不配拿高薪,或在某些情况下,技术员也应该拿高薪。这种讨论比较困难,如果把握不好,可能造成和主要观点矛盾。因此英语程度还不够好的同学请谨慎对待。
这样,按照老雅的“三大层次”理论,本题“写什么”的问题迎刃而解。接下来,请仔细阅读老雅如何用英语具体演绎“怎么写”的问题。
高分范文(老雅原创,不是Chat-GPT作品!)
Those who hold a senior management position are paid much higher than other workers and technicians in the same company or organisation. I believe this is reasonable because the top executives usually work longer hours and under greater pressure, and more importantly, they are harder to find in the job market.
Compared with other workers or technicians whose main task it is to perform their own responsibilities, a top manager has to fully grasp the market dynamics before making suitable business plans and then coordinates various resources available to him/her to achieve the targets and objectives. This means the top executive has to work with people of all levels in the company such as HR, financial officers, technology people, technicians, and so on, and not surprisingly, he/she has to work many extra hours.
Besides longer work hours, the high-level manager has to work under tremendous load of stress because he/she is probably the only one to be responsible for the survival, development, and profitability of the company. If he or she fails in managing a company, his/her whole professional career may be at stake. We have had numerous examples of top managers who can no longer find a job after their failure in the previous positions.
Just because the top management positions are highly demanding, people suitable for these positions are hard to come by. As a matter of fact, there are always more excellent technicians than managers in the job market, which is another important reason why top managers can often earn much higher salaries than technicians.
Of course, there are always managers out there who are paid highly yet should not be. They are not efficient or effective, nor cooperative enough to lead their team. At the same time, we can also always find the most excellent technicians or workers who receive the same salaries as their managers. This most likely happens when the economy is suffering from recession, when the demand for the technicians is even higher than the managers.
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注:蓝色字体标注的是雅思写作高分词汇/词组。