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Part 4 : Questions
Direction : Read the following passages and choose the best answer for each question.
Passage 5
Perhaps the most difficult aspect of
the Japanese for the Westerners to
comprehend is the strong belief in
collective values , particularly a collective
sense of responsibility. Let me
illustrate with an anecdote about a visit
to a new factory in Japan owned
and operated by an American electronics
company.
In the final assembly area of the
company's factory , long lines of young
Japanese woman wired together
electronic products on a piece-rate system :
the more you wired , the more you got
paid. About two months after opening ,
the head foreladies approached the factory
manager. " Honorable manager ," they said
humbly as they bowed , " we are
embarrassed to be so forward , but
we must speak to you because all
of the girls have threatened to quit
work this
Friday." To have this happen ,
of course , would be a great disaster
for all concerned. " Why ," they
wanted to know ,
" can't our factory have the same
payment system as other Japanese companies
? When you hire a new girl
, her
starting wage should be fixed by her
age. An eighteen - year - old should be paid
more than a sixteen - year - old. Every
year on her birthday , she should receive
an automatic increase in pay. The idea
that any of us can be more productive
than another must be wrong , because none
of us in final assembly could make
a thing unless all of the other
people in
the factory had done their jobs right
first . To single one person out
as being more productive is wrong and
is also
personally
humiliating to us." the company changed
its payment system to the Japanese model.
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