PEOPLE SHOULD BE REWARDED ACCORDING TO ABILITY, NOT ACCORDING
TO AGE AND EXPERIENCE
For (Ability)
Statement Todays, the trend of innovation in career
increases sharply that almost all
employments require personal ability to
secure job opportunities. Hence, personal
ability comes the new scale of measurement
in working.
Explanatio In fact, many multi-national companies have
n started to use some techniques to calculate
employee’s ability when they recruit any
position. More and more recruiting
advertisement have listed numerous
requirements (such as ability to work under high
pressure, computer skill, English skill,
Negotiation, ...) when they public to employee.
Besides, ability plays also a vital factor in hi-
tech industry. With smart thinking, logical,
career is supposed to enhance technology day by
day that older generation couldn’t. Therefore, I
believe ability is more important than age and
experience.
Evidence For example, KPI – Key Performance Indicator
is well-known as the main scale of staff’s
performance in working. It is built on the
requirement of personal ability to handle their
job. And salary depends on staff’s ability, not
age or experience. As the program in my
company, the productivity increases 1.5 folds by
using KPI to set up salary. That’s why people
should be rewarded according to ability, not age
or experience.
Rebuttal Actually, your idea is true because ability is one
of key elements to have high salary. And it is
fact that some industries need personal ability
rather than age and experience. But I think age
and experience is more essential to some social
jobs such as teacher, psychological doctor. By
doing long time in their job, experience becomes
unvaluable that young generation cannot learn in
anywhere. And we need them to teach youngers
better and better
Against (Age and Experience)
In long time, many companies
traditionally believe older worker who
spent the significant number of working
years will contributes to the development
of enterprises. So that they should be
appreciated more valuable than young
employee.
In the strict hierarchy of a company, the old
tend to hold some vital position where their
wiser decision plays a very important role in
the existing of enterprise. Some economists
found that experienced worker can run an
organization faster, safer than newbee –
who receives professional education but
lack experience. The reason is that they
have enough patient, brave and prospect
before making any important decision.
Therefore, they need to have more
promotion than younger. And just
remember that old generation is a major
teacher in our daily life.
I remember the famous historical
negotiation between Henry Kissinger and
Le Duc Tho that the age and experience
took more advantages than the ability. At
the time negotiation happen, many people
believe Henry Kissinger, with the
remarkable ability in negotiation, would
defeat Le Duc Tho. But he lost. Le Duc Tho
was always patient, consistency and logic in
conversation because he was more
experience than him.
I cannot agree with you more that old
people dominate significantly to the
organization by their contribution,
experience. They likely take more
advantage than other because their historical
experience. But I think it is against the
young. Society provides them greater
educational facilities but lessens their
opportunities to hold important jobs. That
way is likely discouraging the younger’s
motivation.
Statement Ability is one of the international standards
that ranges a person and determines the
chance to success in future. That factor is
essential to nurture excellent individuals. So
that recognizing a person by their ability will
encourage our society burgeon.
Explanatio Firstly, we are enhancing our education system
n better and better because we hope young
generation can have a high-qualified educational
standard. They will learn more effective, rein
more knowledge and skill. Then they can
become yupple, genius when they grow old.
And it is unreasonable to reward them according
to age and experience. How can we ask
experience with student just graduated? So, we
should create more opportunities for them to
value themselves.
Secondly, we have developed various academic
tests to range student ability since they are in
school. It means young people believe ability or
knowledge will help them success easier. And
they are encouraged to improve their skill. That
is why I think we shouldn’t reward them by their
age.
Evidence I give an example of Mark Zuckerberg and
Steve Job success as the advantage of rewarding
people by their ability. In fact, they got many
significant rewards in their career which have
mainly been built by their ability. Mark
Zuckerberg became a billionaire when he was
28 years old. He knew little technical
experience, compared to other at that time. But
with his ability in technology, he established a
social website for over 2 billion people –
Facebook.
Rebuttal It is great idea that encouraging people more
creative by appreciating their abilities. In the
past, we truly witnessed some geniuses such as
Mozart and Mark Zuckerberg. However, it is a
minority in our lives. Nobody is born as genius.
Everyone, from children to adults, have to learn
from the old generation. It may be their families,
their teachers or other older people. So they are
fostered by their experiences.