深圳市2014高考英语阅读理解精英训练精品题：15（及答案）.docVIP

深圳市2014高考英语阅读理解精英训练精品题（15）及答案 【深圳市2014高考英语综合能力测试题（2）】B Should you be friends with your employees? Im the type of person who likes to be friends with everyone. As I developed my company, I got to a point where I realized being friends with employees was hurting our business and our life. Here are the issues: Youll naturally become closer friends with some people, but others will think you play favorites. When you promote people who are your friends, how will the rest of the company view that promotion and how will that influence your teams culture and the people who are promoted? Even if the promotion is well deserved, other employees are unlikely to view it that way. Youll be considered as a manager who plays favorites. And, realistically, its probably hard not to at least subconsciously (潜意识地) favor your friends. Your friends treat you differently compared to your employees. You dont want your employees to necessarily treat you or company rules as casually as your friends would. Your employees might find it easier not to be friends with you. Lets say you have an employee who works hard and doesnt have enough time for his or her family and friends. Do they want you as a friend? Probably not. It was easy for me to be friends with everyone when we had 25 employees. But it is much more difficult when we had over 150 employees. Friends are equals. Youll make decisions that determine who gets specific tasks, compensation and other things8that are very important to your employees’ future. That doesnt make you equals, and it creates a lot of problems for your friendship. Friends talk about work with each other. The last thing you want to do is to be involved in office gossip. If youre friends with an employee and that employee complains about work, what do you do with that information? If you do nothing, youre basically agreeing with what he or she says. However, they probably dont want someone who will force them to deal with the problem. 31. What is this passage mainly