Direction: In a large company, (74) people is about as common as using a gun or a switch-blade to (75) an argument. As a result, most managers have little or no experience of firing people, and they find it emotionally traumatic; as a result, they often delay the act interminably, much as an unhappy spouse will prolong a bad marriage. And when the firing is done, it’s often done clumsily, with far worse side effects than are necessary.
Do the world-class software organizations have a different way of firing people? No, but they do the deed swiftly, humanely, and professionally.
The key point here is to view the fired employee as a “failed product” and to ask how the process (76) such a phenomenon in the first place.
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Correct Option: D
The passage talks about firing and questions the way in which it is done in large companies. The author thinks that firing is done ‘clumsily’, in a way it should not be done.
The statement in which we have to fill the blank suggests to first consider that employee who is to be fired as a ‘fail product’ and think how and why that happened. The key point is to see what makes that employee to perform badly. The causes should be looked at, to know how the process enabled such a situation to occur. The word ‘allowed’ is the most appropriate. Option (d) is correct.
