A department head emphasized at a meeting that 'everyone should save company funds,' but afterward, he ordered high-end office furniture for himself and insisted on staying at luxury hotels during business trips. Employees are privately discussing this. Which of the following evaluations is most accurate?

Answer: C

• AThe supervisor's personal consumption is a private right, separate from the work requirement to save.✗ Incorrect. When the supervisor's personal consumption involves the use of company resources, it is no longer purely a private matter; this option evades the institutional consequences of inconsistent words and actions.
• BEmployees should focus on the rules themselves, not on the supervisor's personal life.✗ Incorrect. Employees are not concerned with the supervisor's private life but with the actual behavior modeled by the supervisor; focusing only on slogans and ignoring actions overlooks the psychological mechanism that affects the institution.
• CThe supervisor's words and deeds contradict each other; employees will see saving as just a slogan, and trust in the institution will be undermined.✓ Correct. The goal is to make employees save, but the means demonstrate wasteful behavior; employees act according to what is actually rewarded, and the institution loses credibility.
• DThe supervisor's extravagance is meant to motivate employees to work hard; the saving requirement can be implemented later.✗ Incorrect. Using 'motivation' as an excuse turns the means into the opposite of the goal and delays its achievement; this directly conflicts with the goal of having employees save.