首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Japanese firms have achieved the highest levels of manufacturing efficiency in the world automobile industry. Some observers of
Japanese firms have achieved the highest levels of manufacturing efficiency in the world automobile industry. Some observers of
admin
2019-02-01
71
问题
Japanese firms have achieved the highest levels of manufacturing efficiency in the world automobile industry. Some observers of Japan have assumed that Japanese firms use the same manufacturing equipment and techniques as United States firms but have benefited from the unique characteristics of Japanese employees and the Japanese culture. However, if this were true, then one would expect Japanese auto plants in the United States to perform no better than factories run by United States companies. This is not the case, Japanese-run automobile plants located in the United States and staffed by local workers have demonstrated higher levels of productivity when compared with factories owned by United States companies.
Other observers link high Japanese productivity to higher levels of capital investment per worker. But a historical perspective leads to a different conclu- sion. When the two top Japanese automobile makers matched and then doubled United States productivity levels in the mid-sixties, capital investment per employee was comparable to that of United States firms. Furthermore, by the late seventies, the amount of fixed assets required to produce one vehicle was roughly equivalent in Japan and in the United States. Since capital invest - ment was not higher in Japan, it had to be other factors that led to higher productivity.
A more fruitful explanation may lie with Japanese production techniques. Japanese automobile producers did not simply implement conventional processes more effectively: they made critical changes in United States procedures. For instance, the mass-product ion phi- losophy of United States automakers encouraged the production of huge lots of cars in order to utilize fully expensive, component-specific equipment and to occupy fully workers who have been trained to execute one operation efficiently. Japanese automakers chose to make small-lot production feasible by introducing several departures from United States practices, including the use of flexible equipment that could be altered easily to do several different production tasks and the training of workers in multiple jobs. Automakers could schedule the production of different compo- nents or models on single machines, thereby eliminating the need to store the buffer stocks of extra components that result when specialized equipment and workers are kept constantly active.
With which of the following predictive statement regarding Japanese automakers would the author most likely agree?
选项
A、The efficiency levels of the Japanese automakers will decline if they become less flexible in their approach to production.
B、Japanese automakers productivity levels double during the late 1990’s.
C、United States automakers will originate net production processes before Japanese automakers do.
D、Japanese automakers will hire fewer workers than will United States automakers because each worker is required to perform several jobs.
E、Japanese automakers will spend less on equipment repairs than will United States automakers because Japanese equipment can be easily altered.
答案
A
解析
哪一个关于日本汽车制造的说法,作者最有可能同意:A.正确。如果日本企业制造方式不灵活,其生产效率也会下降。文中作者同意的观点:L40—43,日本企业效率高是由生产灵活促成,可推出该选项。B.“during the late 1990’s”,文中无。C.“net production processes”无。D.因为每个日本工人可做各项工作,所以企业主会少雇工人。文中谈日本工人被训练做一件以上工作,不是企业主为了少雇人,而是为了增加生产效率。E.同D,对结果的解释无法由原文推出。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/JmkO777K
本试题收录于:
GMAT VERBAL题库GMAT分类
0
GMAT VERBAL
GMAT
相关试题推荐
Doyouknowinsurance(保险)?Buyinginsuranceisameansbywhichpeoplecanprotectthemselves【C1】______largelosses.Protection
Asanymiddle-classparentknows,unpaidworkexperiencecangiveyoungstersavaluableintroductiontoasecurejob.Thegovern
Manyplayerswhohadbeenhighlythoughtofhave_________fromthetennisscene.
Afterbeingtestedinmanyways,thisnewly-designedmachinewill______inthenearfuture.
Normallyastudentmustattendanumberofcoursesinordertograduate,andeachcoursewhichheattendsgiveshimagradewhic
Expertssaidtheresultswereinteresting,buturgedthattheybeunderstoodwithgreatcare.
ChokweSelassieisonamissiontohelpdriversavoidpotholes(路面坑洼).Theeighth-graderwasinspiredtokickoffhismissionon
Theprimaryfunctionofthesecondparagraphofthepassageisto______TheauthorimpliesthatonewaythatVHSproducerswon
Onevarietyofpartiallybiodegradableplasticbeveragecontainerismanufacturedfromsmallbitsofplasticboundtogetherbya
随机试题
Whatwillthelistenersprobablydothen?
CPU与存储器之间在速度的匹配方面存在着矛盾,一般采用多级存储系统层次结构来解决或缓和矛盾。按速度的快慢排列,它们是高速缓存、内存、_________。
幽门梗阻时禁用下列哪类药物
肩周炎的最主要治疗方法是
小柴胡汤和蒿芩清胆汤中均含有药物是
承担产品侵权责任的要件包括()。
市人民检察院对于王某涉嫌非法向外国人出售、赠送珍贵文物罪,应当如何处理?指控王某犯有巨额财产来源不明罪,首先应当承担证明其财产或者支出明显超过合法收入且差额巨大的证明责任的,是下列选项中的哪些机关或人员?
()是指对具有估计性的会计事项,应当谨慎从事,应当合理预计可能发生的损失和费用,不预计或少预计可能带来的利润。
将Fe、Mg合金4.00g投入到足量的一定浓度的硝酸中,金属与硝酸完全反应(金属全部溶解),共收集到标准状况下的气体VL(气体为No租NO2),若向反应后的溶液中加入足量的氢氧化钠溶液,理论上最多可得沉淀8.25g,则V值可能为()。
方程x+2=ex根的个数是[].
最新回复
(
0
)