The reading passage discusses Frederick Winslow Taylor's time-and-motion studies and its theories of scientific management, while the listening passage discusses the practical issues with implementing Taylor's studies in factories. While Taylor believed his studies would improve worker efficiency and increase factory profits, the listening passage explains they did not work as intended and instead led to higher costs, lower pay for skilled workers, and lower efficiency due to the limitations of human workers performing repetitive tasks.
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How do the ideas in the listening passage doubt on the ideas in the reading passage
The reading passage discusses Frederick Winslow Taylor's time-and-motion studies and its theories of scientific management, while the listening passage discusses the practical issues with implementing Taylor's studies in factories. While Taylor believed his studies would improve worker efficiency and increase factory profits, the listening passage explains they did not work as intended and instead led to higher costs, lower pay for skilled workers, and lower efficiency due to the limitations of human workers performing repetitive tasks.
The reading passage discusses Frederick Winslow Taylor's time-and-motion studies and its theories of scientific management, while the listening passage discusses the practical issues with implementing Taylor's studies in factories. While Taylor believed his studies would improve worker efficiency and increase factory profits, the listening passage explains they did not work as intended and instead led to higher costs, lower pay for skilled workers, and lower efficiency due to the limitations of human workers performing repetitive tasks.
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.