專業英語Day114丨生產力差距與資本投資的問題並非相關頭條網

2020-11-27 06:43:15 佚名

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The planning, design and installation of capital equipment is also only a part of the increase in productivity through the substitution of “brain” for “brawn”.

規劃、設計和安裝資本設備仍然只能反映以“腦力”取代“體力”後所提升的一小部分生產力而已。

At least as important is the contribution made through the direct change of the character of work from one requiring the manual labor of many people, skilled and unskilled, to one requiring the theoretical analysis and conceptual planning of men of vision and education without any investment in capital equipment whatsoever.

至少同等重要的是直接轉換工作性質對於生產力的貢獻——從需要許多技術性或非技術性勞動力，轉換成需要受過教育、見多識廣的人才進行理論化的分析與概念性的規劃工作，而不需任何資本設備的投資。

Recent studies (for instance, one made by the Stanford Research Institute) show quite clearly that the productivity differential between Western Europe and the United States is not a matter of capital investment.

最近的研究（例如斯坦福研究院所做的研究）清楚地顯示，西歐和美國的生產力差距與資本投資的問題並不相關。

In many European industries capital investment and equipment were found to be fully equal to America; yet productivity was as much as two thirds below that of the corresponding American industry.

許多歐洲產業的資本投資和設備都和美國企業不相上下，然而西歐產業的生產力卻只有美國同產業的2/3。

The only explanation is the lower proportion of managers and technicians and the poor organization structure of European industry with its reliance on manual skill.

唯一的解釋是西歐企業高度依賴人工技能，管理者和技術人員所佔的比例較低，而且組織結構較不完善。