LSAT Question Explanation
PT 108, Section 3, Question 9
Identify the FlawArgument structure
Top management does not behave indifferently to the needs and aspirations of employees.
Top managers claim to care about the training and welfare of employees.
Explanation
This argument confuses what management claims to care about with what they actually do. Even if the CEO's do care about their employees, that doesn't mean that their behavior promotes employee needs and welfare.
We have no idea what people do simply based on what they claim to care about.
Answer choices
CEO's are the leaders of companies so they are top management.
The argument didn't presume that management doesn't feel indifferent, it assumed that they don't behave indifferently.
The argument doesn't ever claim that CEO's have misplaced priorities, just that their behavior reflects a care for employees.
The author does make this assumption. People's claims/stated priorities are not always reflected by their actions.
There's no reason to think that the 125 CEO's who were polled are not representative of top management teams. They are the leaders of top management.