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If sustainable competitive advantage depends on work force skills, American firm shave a problem. Human-resource management is n
If sustainable competitive advantage depends on work force skills, American firm shave a problem. Human-resource management is n
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2012-11-30
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问题
If sustainable competitive advantage depends on work force skills, American firm shave 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. Labor is simply another factor of production to be hired--rented at the lowest possible cost--must as one buys raw materials or equipment.
The lack of importance attached to human-resource management can be seen in the corporate pecking order. 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, oil 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. By way of contrast, in Japan the head of human-resource management is central usually the second most important executive, after the CEO, in the firm’s hierarchy.
While American firms often talk about the vast amounts spent on training their work force, 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 more highly concentrated on professional and managerial employees. And the limited investments that are made in training workers are also much more narrowly focused on the specific skills necessary to do the next job rather than 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.
What is the main idea of the passage?
选项
A、American firms’ human resource management strategies affect their competitive capacity.
B、Human-resource management is a key factor in a firm’s survival.
C、The cost of Work training in America is higher than that in Japan and Germany.
D、American firms are different from Japanese and German firms in human-resource management.
答案
A
解析
主旨题。全文共四段,其中前三段讲述了美国人力管理情况,第四段讲述了不重视人力管理对公司造成的影响。A“美国人力管理策略影响了其竞争能力”概括了全篇的内容。B太笼统;C只涉及员工的培训,未涉及其影响,故内容太窄;D是文章的一项内容,但没有展开。
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