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How do the ideas in the listening passage doubt on the

ideas in the reading passage?


There is a huge difference between both passages. From
reading passage we learn about the concept of Frederick Winslow
Taylor’s time-and-motion studies and get into theory. In the listening
passage we are told how the studies has actually worked in practice
where mainly issues are viewed.
According to Taylor scientific managers had to use results of
extensive time-and-motion time to institute changes in order to
improve the speed of efficiency of workers on factory floors and
improve factory profits. The first change was about reorganizing
lower-skilled workers’ job by instructing them more efficient skills.
The second change took care of higher-skilled and higher-paid
workers - they were replaced with lower-skilled workers who had to
complete higher-skilled workers’ tasks but broken into smaller
tasks.
When listening we are informed that the studies did not actually
work out and became the opposite of expected. The first problem
was financial: it was difficult to conduct so everything turned out
very costly. An additional issue to that was the inability of
lower-skilled workers to work like machines and complete repetitive
actions thousands of times. The final problem showed that
higher-skilled workers would not be paid that much anymore which
is going to be a struggle.
To summarize, the studies turned out not how Taylor expected.
The efficiency was not improved, there were more costs and no
greater profits.

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