【GMAT考满分阅读RC题库】The traditional model of employer-employee relatio_真题_答案

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The traditional model of employer-employee relations in the United States was a "psychological contract" in which employees made long-term commitments to organizations in exchange for long-term job security, training and development, and internal opportunities for promotion. Beginning mainly with the recession in the early 1970's, this paradigm began to unravel. Organizations began using extensive downsizing and outsourcing to decrease the number of permanent employees in the workforce. Among employees this situation has resulted in a decided shift in desire: instead of working their way up in an organization, many now prefer to work their way out. Entrepreneurship at the small business administration are now the fastest-growing majors in business schools.

Several factors have generated movement from the old paradigm to the new one. Organizations have had legitimate and pressing reasons to shift to a new paradigm of employer-employee relations. Large numbers of permanent employees make it difficult for organizations to respond quickly to downturns in demand by decreasing payroll costs. The enormous rights in wrongful discharge suites has created incentives for organizations to use temporary, contract, and leased employees in order to distance themselves from potential litigation problems. Moreover, top management is under increased pressure from shareholders to generate higher and higher levels of return on investment in the short run, resulting in declines in hiring, increases in layoffs, and shortage of funds for employee development.

At the same time, a lack of forthrightness on the part of organizations has led to increased cynicism among employees about management's motivation and competence. Employees are now working 15 percent more hours per week than they were 20 years ago, but organizations acknowledge this fact only by running stress-management workshops to help employees to cope. Sales people are being asked to increase sales at the same time organizations have cut travel, phone, and advertising budgets. Employees could probably cope effectively with changes in the psychological contract if organizations were more forthright about how they were changing it. But the euphemistic jargon used by executives to justify the changes they were implementing frequently backfires; rather than engendering sympathy for management's position, it sparks employees' desire to be free of the organization all together. In a recent study of employees' attitudes about management, 49 percent of the sample strongly agreed that "management will take advantage of you if given the chance."

The passage suggests that organizations' movement to the "new paradigm" (highlight text) is based in part on the expectation that wrongful discharge suites against employers are ____?

Aless likely to be filed by non-managerial employees than by managers
Bless likely to be filed by leased employees than by contract employees
Cless likely to be filed by contract employees than by permanent employees
Dmore likely to be filed by employees with a long history in the organization than by newer hirers
Emore likely to be filed in small organizations than in large ones

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正确答案: C

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刘宝宝vincent

我始终是觉得选项说反了

2016-12-20 18:10:56 IP属地：四川举报

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学员HGHrjO 回复刘宝宝vincent

我也！！！！

2022-07-14 17:46:04 IP属地：局域网举报

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qidong

我就想问你把suit的复数写成suites谁能理解成诉讼？？

2016-08-03 11:49:47 IP属地：北京举报

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leeeeeee7

答案意思是：企业之所以向新模式变化，一部分是因为合同工比永久员工提出非法解雇诉讼的情况低
wrongful discharge suit 是非法解雇诉讼的意思
file 是提出诉讼的意思

2014-10-01 22:23:34 IP属地：陕西举报

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AIKE

说真的我也没有太明白这道题的意思，但是你不妨可以看看选项，里面都是比较级！你可以将里面的比较对象设成A和B，然后回原文定位一下。这段无非就是说，为了缓解问题，公司更倾向于将永久合同员工改为临时工，那么你就将永久员工假设为A，临时的假设为B，只有B选项和C选项提到了临时员工和永久员工的内容。比较完以后发现，B选项等于是将公司将要转变的临时工和合同工作比较，并不是永久员工和临时工，所以删除B，选C。希望能帮上，这方法在没有看懂题干时应该还是蛮有用的~

2014-09-01 15:01:48 IP属地：北京举报

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scofield9

问题问的是wrongful discharge suites 所以应该与原文相反吧？

2013-10-27 11:41:50 IP属地：陕西举报

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ronlee

比较的是permanent 和 leased contract temporary。答案里只有c是permanent 和 contract的比较是正确的。

2016-11-19 11:12:18 IP属地：甘肃举报

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ruby大大瑞

单词问题句意问题！！file

2015-05-05 11:23:02 IP属地：上海举报

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pinkcoconut 回复 ruby大大瑞

解题关键：file提出诉讼，可以看做是个贬义词···文中说更愿意换成临时工，也对应着选项中临时工更不容易惹麻烦（提出诉讼）这件事

2019-09-24 20:30:31 IP属地：北京举报

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努力的香蕉君

permanent employee=正式员工
temporary=contract=leased employee=临时工

2016-07-28 09:49:55 IP属地：局域网举报

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Ying_HEC

主要是被wrongful discharge suites吓懵了吧。其实看不明白这个主语位置的短语也不影响理解的，后面in order to 这个地方把躲官司的意思说清楚了。 suites估计是写错了，suit（suits）有诉讼案的意思，但多了一个e就别的意思了！！！！！文中的意思是：短期工可以避免雇主吃官司（wrongful discharge suit/litigation problems) .虽然最后也不太懂啥是discharge suit，但大概就是雇主被告了，明白就行。

2017-08-21 14:59:27 IP属地：新加坡举报

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珏对的信仰

against 这里不是反对的意思，类似 to 的意思

2017-07-22 22:29:32 IP属地：北京举报

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