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If sustainable competitive advantage depends on workforce skills, American firms have a problem. Human resource management is no

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问题     If sustainable competitive advantage depends on workforce skills, American firms have a problem. Human resource management is not traditionally seen as central to the competitive survival of the firm in the United States. Skill acquisition is considered an individual responsibility. Labour is simply another factor of production to be rented at the lowest possible cost much as one buys raw materials or equipment.
    The lack of importance attached to human resource management can be seen in the corporate hierarchy. In an American firm the chief financial officer is almost always second in command. The post of head of human-resource management is usually a specialized job, off at the edge of the corporate hierarchy. The executive who holds it is never consulted on major strategic decisions and has no chance to move up to Chief Executive Officer (CEO). By way of contrast, in Japan the head of human-resource management is central, usually the second most important, after the CEO, in the firm’s hierarchy.
    While American firms often talk about the vast amounts spent on training their work forces, in fact they invest less in the skills of their employees than do either Japanese or German firms. The money they do invest is also much more narrowly focused on the basic background skills that make it possible to absorb new technologies.
    As a result, problems emerge when new breakthrough technologies arrive. If American workers, for example, take much longer to learn how to operate new flexible manufacturing stations than workers in Germany (as they do), the effective cost of those stations is lower in Germany than it is in the United States. More time is required before equipment is up and running at capacity, and the need for extensive retraining generates costs and creates bottlenecks that limit the speed with which new equipment can be employed. The result is a slower pace of technological change. And in the end the skills of the bottom half of the population affect the wages of the top half. If the bottom half can’t effectively staff the processes that have to be operated, the management and professional jobs that go with these processes will disappear.
选项 A、Human-resource management is not considered principal to the survival of American companies.
B、Human-resource management is next to financial management.
C、Gaining of skills is seen as the firms responsibility.
D、Human-resource manager only hired skilled workers.
答案A
解析 细节题。文章第一段第二句指出人力资源管理没有成为企业生存的核心，所以"人力资源管理被认为对美国公司的生存不重要"符合文意。"人力资源管理仅次于财务管理"未在原文中提及，相关的论述在第二段：人力资源管理是专业工作，财务主管是二级主管；文章第一段第三句指出美国公司认为培训工人是工人自己的事，不是公司的事；其他选项在文中没有提及，因此都不正确。
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