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  3. Each year Universum, a Swedish consulting firm asks American MBA students where they would most like to work. The 2007 survey sh

Each year Universum, a Swedish consulting firm asks American MBA students where they would most like to work. The 2007 survey sh

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问题     Each year Universum, a Swedish consulting firm asks American MBA students where they would most like to work. The 2007 survey showed a few surprises in its top 50 companies named: Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems had fell, while old reliables such as General Electric, Coca-Cola and General Mills had jumped up the list. But the most-desired industry remains consulting, despite the beating it has taken since the end of the dotcom boom, and the top firm remains McKinsey. Perhaps the reason is: in recent years McKinsey has done as much as any company to provide MBA graduates with increasingly better and more profitable positions.
    The reason for this was the firm’s popularization of a concept known as "war for talent". It advocated finding the best and brightest and rewarding their innovations (创新) in proportion to "talent" instead of their performance or seniority (资格). But what is talent? And how does a company measure its employees’ talent, especially when assigning them to new projects? The "war for talent" recommends a careful assessment of the inner skills and characteristics ready for success but gives few clues as to what those inner skirls might be, which might make the war standardless. For a company focused on quick growth, one shortcut could be young hires who had already been rewarded for their talent by receiving MBAs from well-respected schools. Thus as the idea of finding talented employees who could quickly learn the skills took off, so did the asking price of the star MBA graduates.
    Unfortunately, now the "war for talent" seems less of a brilliant idea. The economic downturn, bringing with it less competition for the available talent, also did its part to control in indulgent (宽容的) employers.
    Similarly, Professor Jeffrey Pfeifer emphasized that cultivating a talent means not just hiring the most effective performers, but being able to deal quickly and firmly with the least effective C performers. But he adds that the C refers not to the person but to the individual’s performance in a given job. Some low-performing managers were A or B performers earlier in their careers—and may attain that level of performance again.
    MBA programs will remain attractive recruiting areas, but the MBA model itself has come under increasing criticism. Prof. Pfeifer, in a 2007 article found little evidence that an MBA had much effect on future salary or career. Future MBA students might need to provide more evidence of their talent to impress potential employers.
A weak point of "war of talent" plan is that ______.
选项 A、talents are something invisible and might be shown with time
B、talent is very hard to be defined or measured effectively
C、the talented people do not always have an MBA degree
D、different companies may rank the same person differently
答案B
解析 综合理解题。原文第二段中间说，天才争夺战介绍了一种仔细评估“指向成功的天生技能和性格”的方法，但是却没有说明这些天生技能和素质到底是什么，这就可能让这场天才争夺战失去标准。由此可以推知，没有标准的战争就是该人才争夺计划的弱点所在，那么其原因就在于对“天才”很难定义和测量，同时这又印证了该段but引起的句子所说的：“天才是什么?公司又怎样衡量雇员的天才呢?”故B“天才很难被有效地定义或衡量”为正确答案。
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