首页
登录
职称英语
Historical developments of the past half century and the invention of modem te
Historical developments of the past half century and the invention of modem te
游客
2024-12-31
31
管理
问题
Historical developments of the past half century and the invention of modem telecommunication and transportation technologies have created a world economy. Effectively the American economy has died and been replaced by a world economy.
In the future there is no such thing as being an American manager. Even someone who spends an entire management career in Kansas City is in international management. He or she will compete with foreign firms, buy from foreign firms, sell to foreign films, or acquire financing from foreign banks.
The globalization of the world’s capital markets that has occurred in the past 10 years will be replicated right across the economy in the next decade. An international perspective has become central to management. Without it managers are operating in ignorance and cannot understand what is happening to them and their firms.
Partly because of globalization and partly because of demography, the work forces of the next century are going to be very different from those of the last century. Most firms will be employing more foreign nationals. More likely than not, you and your boss will not be of the same nationality. Demography and changing social mores mean that white males will become a smaller fraction of the work force as women and minorities grow in importance. All of these factors will require changes in the traditional methods of managing the work force.
In addition, the need to produce goods and services at quality levels previously thought impossible to obtain in mass production and the spreading use of participatory management techniques will require a work force with much higher levels of education and skills. Production workers must be able to do statistical quality control; production workers must be able to do just in-time inventories. Managers are increasingly shifting from a "don’t think, do what you are told" to a "think, I am not going to tell you what to do" style of management.
This shift is occurring not because today’s managers are more enlightened than yesterday’s managers but because the evidence is rapidly mounting that the second style of management is more productive than the first style of management. But this means that problems of training and motivating the work force both become more central and require different modes of behavior.
In the world of tomorrow managers cannot be technologically illiterate regardless of their functional tasks within the firm. They don’t have to be scientists or engineers inventing new technologies, but they have to be managers who understand when to bet and when not to bet on new technologies. If they don’t understand what is going on and technology effectively becomes a black box, they will fail to make the changes that those who do understand what is going on inside the black box make. They will be losers, not winners.
Today’s CEOs are those who solved the central problems facing their companies 20 years ago. Tomorrow’s CEOs will be those who solve central problems facing their companies today. Sloan hopes to produce a generation of managers who will be solving today’s and tomorrow’s problems and because they are successful in doing so they will become tomorrow’s captains of business. [br] Speaking of the problems of training and motivating laborers, the author implies that ______.
选项
A、laborers should keep up with the rapid development of modern technology
B、laborers pay more attention to wages
C、laborers want to advance themselves
D、there is a radical change in management style
答案
D
解析
第五段清楚地指出由于全球化使得公司员工组成多国化,这要求管理方式发生变化,最后一句直接给出了答案。故选D。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3892371.html
相关试题推荐
Intheeighteenthcentury,Japan’sfeudaloverlords,fromtheshoguntothehu
Intheeighteenthcentury,Japan’sfeudaloverlords,fromtheshoguntothehu
Intheeighteenthcentury,Japan’sfeudaloverlords,fromtheshoguntothehu
Historicaldevelopmentsofthepasthalfcenturyandtheinventionofmodemte
Historicaldevelopmentsofthepasthalfcenturyandtheinventionofmodemte
Historicaldevelopmentsofthepasthalfcenturyandtheinventionofmodemte
Thetwentiethcenturysawgreatchange.Inyouropinion,whatisonechangeth
In17th-centuryNewEngland,almosteveryonebelievedinwitches.Strugglingt
In17th-centuryNewEngland,almosteveryonebelievedinwitches.Strugglingt
Atthebeginningofthe17thcenturytheEnglishlanguagewasbroughttoNorthA
随机试题
Whataretheytalkingabout?[br][originaltext]W:Mr.Smith?I’vebeentrying
Hewillbedoinghisbestto______himselfonhisopponentforlastyear’sdefe
WhowontheWorldCupfootballgame?WhathappenedattheUnitedNations?Ho
中国是一个农业大国,也是世界农业起源地之一。水稻和小麦等农作物都原产自中国。新中国成立后,政府十分重视农业生产,不断加大农业投入,加速了农业生产的现代化
[img]2022m3x/ct_ve01202001m_eillist_0728_220329[/img][br]Theexhibitioncentre
[originaltext]M:Today,we’veProfessorMcKayonourmorningtalkshow.Goodmo
建设工程人工定额是在()的施工条件下测定和计算的。A、最差 B、平均先进 C
银行承兑汇票的承兑银行,应当按照票面金额向出票人收取()的手续费。A:千分之一
属于热辐射光源的是()。A.荧光灯 B.金属卤化物灯 C.卤钨灯 D
男,40岁,患糖尿病10余年,尿蛋白阴性,近1个月感下腹部胀,排尿不畅伴尿失禁。
最新回复
(
0
)