Đọc hiểu -TOEFL- Bài 45
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A major challenge to management in the late 1970s and early 1980s1. What is the main idea of the passage?
was the need to increase the productivity of American business. Before
that, the productivity growth rate of US industry had begun to fall
behind Japan and even Western Europe. If the country's economy was
5 to go forward a radical change in productivity was called for.
But to return to the high productivity growth rate of the years when
the US was still the world leader required many changes and solutions
to problems. Management, for a start, had to be revitalized, re-thought
10 out. The energy problem, both the shortage and the high price, had
to be solved. Business operations as a whole had to be improved.
Above all, efficiency, basically the efficiency of the management
since it directly affects the efficiency of the labor force, had
to be improved. This meant better efficiency in employing all the
15 necessary resources, whether they be natural, human or financial.
Effective management, therefore, was realized to be the sole key factor
for increasing productivity and returning the US economy to the number
20 one spot.
2. Which country or continent was probably the world leader in productivity in the early 1970s?
3. According to the author what was the problem with American management?
4. What does the author imply will happen if the management is not efficient?
5. What does the author feel is the most important way to increase productivity?
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