首页
登录
职称英语
In general, our society is becoming one of giant enterprises directed by a bu
In general, our society is becoming one of giant enterprises directed by a bu
游客
2023-12-23
57
管理
问题
In general, our society is becoming one of giant enterprises directed by a bureaucratic management in which man becomes a small, well-oiled cog in the machinery. The oiling is done with higher wages, well-ventilated factories and piped music, and by psychologists and "human-relations" experts; yet all this oiling does not alter the fact that man has become powerless, that he does not wholeheartedly participate in his work and that he is bored with it. In fact, the blue-and the white-collar workers have become economic puppets who dance to the tune of automated machines and bureaucratic management.
The worker and employee are anxious, not only because they might find themselves out of a job; they are anxious also because they are unable to acquire any real satisfaction or interest in life. They live and die without ever having confronted the fundamental realities of human existence as emotionally and intellectually independent and productive human beings.
Those higher up on the social ladder axe no less anxious. Their lives axe no less empty than those of their subordinates. They axe even more insecure in some respects. They are in a highly competitive race. To be promoted or to fall behind is not a matter of salary but even more a matter of self-respect. When they apply for their first job, they are tested for intelligence as well as for the right mixture of submissiveness and independence. From that moment on they axe tested again and again--by the psychologists, for whom testing is a big business, and by their superiors, who judge their behavior, sociability, capacity to get along, etc. This constant need to prove that one is as good as or better than one’s fellow-competitor creates constant anxiety and stress, the very causes of unhappiness and illness.
Am I suggesting that we should return to the preindustrial mode of production or to nineteenth-century "free enterprise" capitalism? Certainly not. Problems axe never solved by returning to a stage which one has already outgrown. I suggest transforming our social system from a bureaucratically managed industrialism in which maximal production and consumption axe ends in themselves into a humanist industrialism in which man and full development of his potentialities—those of love and of reason--are the aims of all social arrangements. Production and consumption should serve only as means to this end, and should be prevented from ruling man. [br] The author’s attitude towards industrialism might best be summarized as one of ______.
选项
A、approval
B、dissatisfaction
C、suspicion
D、tolerance
答案
B
解析
转载请注明原文地址:http://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3298840.html
相关试题推荐
[originaltext]Onceasocialtaboo,loveacrossthecolorlineisbecomingi
[originaltext]Onceasocialtaboo,loveacrossthecolorlineisbecomingi
[originaltext]Onceasocialtaboo,loveacrossthecolorlineisbecomingi
[originaltext]Onceasocialtaboo,loveacrossthecolorlineisbecomingi
Thecultureofanysocietyisusuallythoughttobeoftwokinds:materiala
Asascourgeofthemodernsociety,obesityhasbecometheworld’sbiggestp
Ingeneral,oursocietyisbecomingoneofgiantenterprisesdirectedbyabu
Ingeneral,oursocietyisbecomingoneofgiantenterprisesdirectedbyabu
Anindustrialsociety,especiallyoneascentralizedandconcentratedasthat
Anindustrialsociety,especiallyoneascentralizedandconcentratedasthat
随机试题
Mostworthwhilecareersrequiresomekindofspecializedtraining.Ideally,
LOSANGELES—HongKongimmigrantslivingintheAmericancityknownasthe"C
"Whatadifferenceawordmakes?"Theissueofsemantics(语义学)hasbeenan
[originaltext]Smokingcanbeharmfultoyourhealth.Butwhydopeo
定量预测方法的特点有( )。A.以数据资料为基础 B.建立数学模型作为定量预
下列句子中,存在形容词使动用法的是( )。A.吾所以为此者,以先国家之急而后私
某电子邮箱收件箱的内容如下图所示,其中未读邮件个数为(),本页面中带附件的邮件
背信运用受托财产罪侵犯的客体是()。A.金融管理秩序和客户的合法权益 B
某污水处理厂二沉池剩余污泥体积200m3/d,其含水率为99%,浓缩至含水率为9
下列对遵义会议的描述中不正确的是()A.确立了以毛泽东为核心的正确领导 B.
最新回复
(
0
)