모의고사 기출---Some rsearchers~~

Some researchers, who were interested in exploring ways to make the employee-bonus scheme more effective, conducted an experiment.(어떤 연구원들이 근로자들에게 줄 보너스 계획이 더 효과적인 방법인가를 연구하는 실험을 했다.)

 

At the beginning of the week, some groups of workers were told that they would receive a bonus of $12 at the end of the week if they met a given production target.(주초에, 어느 집단의 노동자들은 주어진 생산목표를 달성하면 주말에 12달러의 보너스를 받게 될거라는 말을 듣게 되었다.)

 

Other groups were told that they would be conditionally awarded a pay raise of $12, but that they would lose it if their productivity fell short of the same threshold.(다른 집단은 조건적으로 12달러의 봉급인상이 되지만, 그들의 생산성이 동일한 분기점에 도달하지 못하면 보너스를 못 받게 될거라는 얘기를 들었다.)

 

Objectively these are two ways of describing the same scheme.(객관적으로는 똑같은 계획을 설명하는 두가지 방식일 뿐이다.)

 

But the finding showed the second way of presenting the bonus did work better.(그러나 조사결과는 보너스를 제시하는 두 번째 방식이 훨씬 더 좋았다.)

 

Workers would think of the conditional pay raise as theirs, and work harder to prevent it from being taken away.(노동자들은 조건적 봉급 인상을 그들이 선호하며, 그것<보너스>을 잃지 않기 위해 더욱 열심히 일한다고 생각한다.) [125 words] * threshold 경계, 분계점

 

--> This research suggets that workers tend to work harder when they are made to fear the __(A)__ of their expected __(B)__.

 

      (A)                        (B)

➀ loss--------vacation 

➁ burden-----workload

➂ reduction---workload 

➃ burden-----reward

➄ loss--------reward