Q14

[jimmy902o]

Pretty confused by this question... what i was looking for in the analogy was something about one person working with others to develop long term skills such as in lines 50-55. This was why I liked D as an answer choice. A on the other and seems to come down to money! The aim of mediation, and mediators in mediation i thought it dealt with helping families, not making them more money.

[maryadkins]

Let's look back to where in the passage the mediator's role is discussed. We have lines 13-16, which tells us:

-mediators help parties arrive at a solution themselves
-mediators facilitate
-the goal is for the family members to communicate and cooperate to reach an agreement

In (A), the specialist is helping the works and management reach a solution on their own. Bingo!

(B) isn't a fit because the teacher is deciding on her own.

(C) isn't a fit because the director solicits feedback but there's no mutually-created agreement.

(D) isn't a fit because there's no conflict and agreement.

(E) is the opposite.

Hope this helps.

[ttunden]

I got the right answer but was lucky

I am not really sure how you can answer this question because there is SOOOOOOO much stuff in this passage about the mediator-family member relationship. I had several things written down by the question to look for: decision, stress going down, unique needs being met, less government intervention, and then the general traits from the 1st paragraph.

I easily eliminated C D and E since they did not meet the aforementioned traits.
I just liked A better since it did a better job of meeting the criteria I listed. B solely has the teacher deciding when it should be everyone reaching a decision.

[maryadkins]

Haha, you say you had no idea how to answer this question, but when you describe your process, it's right on! Well done. THAT is how to answer this question: process of elimination using the criteria that you used.

Sometimes you aren't going to be thrilled with the AC you choose on RC. That's precisely why you want to work in this way.

Keep it up.

[uhdang]

Hi,
I missed out that there needs to be an agreement to be analogous and chose D). D) clearly isn't the right answer with missing the element of "agreement."

But, I still don't like the answer A), because relationship between family members is clearly not analogous to the relationship between workers and management. They are clearly not on equal positions whereas family members are. The biggest reason I settled for D) is that members for "interoffice communications" are on equal positions as the same office members. But we can't combine workers and managements together as working members.. can we? I feel like I am on the verge of being convinced to consider them as same working members and not.. I would very much appreciate the clarification.

Also, this might be a bit of bias from my part, but "labor relations" sounds more inclined to workers than management. This might just be my lack of knowledge on "labor relations."

Besides, regarding "salary increase" as the source of dispute, I don't think family dispute would have analogous dispute as this, unless we seriously consider "allowance increase" by children as a family dispute..

I might be nitpicking here, but would really appreciate thoughts on these.

[maryadkins]

The stuff you mention isn't wrong, per se, but it's missing the much bigger point that only (A) matches the process. You can't just dismiss that to argue that on a much shallower level (D) would be a better fit. (D) doesn't, as you noted, even have an AGREEMENT reached. That's huge. Knock it out and stop trying to defend it and move on!

[uhdang]

Looking at the question with a fresh mind, I realize that you are absolutely right. Focusing on the bigger part: reaching agreement. I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for the clarification.