GWD-5-10, GWD-5-11

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Behavior science courses should

       be gaining prominence in business

       school curricula.  Recent theoretical

Line       work convincingly shows why behav-

  (5)      ioral factors such as organizational

culture and employee relations are

among the few remaining sources of

sustainable competitive advantage in

modern organizations.  Furthermore,

 (10)      empirical evidence demonstrates

clear linkages between human

resource (HR) practices based in

the behavioral sciences and various

aspects of a firm’s financial success.

 (15)      Additionally, some of the world’s most

successful organizations have made

unique HR practices a core element

of their overall business strategies.

      Yet the behavior sciences

 (20)      are struggling for credibility in many

business schools.  Surveys show

that business students often regard

behavioral studies as peripheral to

       the mainstream business curriculum.

 (25)      This perception can be explained by

the fact that business students, hoping

to increase their attractiveness to

prospective employers, are highly

sensitive to business norms and

 (30)      practices, and current business

practices have generally been

moving away from an emphasis on

       understanding human behavior and

toward more mechanistic organiza-

 (35)      tional models.  Furthermore, the

       status of HR professionals within

organizations tends to be lower

than that of other executives.

      Students’ perceptions would

 (40)      matter less if business schools

were not increasingly dependent on

external funding—form legislatures,

businesses, and private foundations—

for survival.  Concerned with their

 (45)      institutions’ ability to attract funding,

administrators are increasingly tar-

geting low-enrollment courses and

degree programs for elimination.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

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Q10:

The author of the passage mentions “empirical evidence” (line 10) primarily in order to

             

1. question the value of certain commonly used HR practices

2. illustrate a point about the methodology behind recent theoretical work in the behavioral sciences

3. support a claim about the importance that business schools should place on courses in the behavioral sciences

4. draw a distinction between two different factors that affect the financial success of a business

5. explain how the behavioral sciences have shaped HR practices in some business organizations

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Q11:

The author of the passage suggests which of the following about HR professionals in business organizations?

 

1. They are generally skeptical about the value of mechanistic organizational models.

2. Their work increasingly relies on an understanding of human behavior.

3. Their work generally has little effect on the financial performance of those organizations.

4. Their status relative to other business executives affects the attitude of business school students toward the behavioral sciences.

5. Their practices are unaffected by the relative prominence of the behavioral sciences within business schools.

Q10, why is C, not B

Q11, why is D, not B

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hehuabaobao

顶！有没有来解答一下。

flyawayaloe

Q10 Empirical evidence 和前面的Recent theoretical work以及后面的成功企业HR的经验 三个内容并列，来证明Topic sentence： behavior science 对b-school curriculum很重要。 B错在不是对methodology的解释。而是C，支持主题句表达的意思。

Q11 差点也选B。后来发现，文章并没有提到HR的工作越来越依赖对behavior的理解。HR的确需要理解human behavior，但是“越来越依赖”不符合原文，而是我们主观推断的。
D。正确。第二段中解释为什么B-SCHOOL学生不重视behavior science的三个原因：1。学生希望多学实用技巧，来吸引雇主。2。当今商业运作的重点是实用的mechanistic技巧，而不是理论性的行为学。3。Furthermore，HR在企业中的地位没有其他管理人员高，因此，与HR相关的Human Behavior也就不受到学生重视了。 所以，D, HR的地位影响了学生对Human Behavior的态度，是正确的。

InfiniteAlex

LS很厉害！