IELTS Academic Reading ‘Change in business organisations’ Answers
IELTS Academic Reading ‘Change in business organisations’ Answers
The IELTS Academic Reading: Cambridge Reading Sample; ‘Change in business organisations’ with answers. The post will discuss the answers to questions 14-26.
Change in business organisations
Answers
The answers with explanations are given below
| Question Number | Answers | Keywords | Location of Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14. | F | ‘By 2020, the nine-to-five rat race will be extinct, In 20 years time, 20-25 percent of the workforce will be temporary workers and many more will be flexible. | Paragraph F |
| 15. | B | To a large extent, demand and supply were predictable, enabling companies to structure their organisations along what Burns and Stalker (1966) described as mechanistic lines, that is as systems of strict hierarchical structures and firm means of control. | Paragraph B
Last line |
| 16. | G | Even if the direction of change is not always predictable, organisational managers and decision-makers, analyse the factors which trigger organisational change. | Paragraph G |
| 17. | A | However, the winds die down to give periods of relative calm, periods of relative organisational stability. | Paragraph A |
| 18. | C | ‘You can have any colour of car so long as it is black’, gives a flavour of the supply-led state of the market. Apart from any technical difficulties of producing different colours of the car, Ford did not have to worry about customers’ colour preferences: | Paragraph C
Lines 6 – 9 |
| 19. | C | increased productivity, supply overtook demand. | Paragraph D, Last 2 lines |
| 20. | B | for organisations, supplying, ever-increasing numbers became the aim. | Paragraph B, Lines 7-8 |
| 21. | A | society influenced mainly by local markets (both customer and labour) | Paragraph A, Lines 11-12 |
| 22. | C | In the neo-industrial age, people became more discriminating in the goods | Paragraph D, Lines 2-3 |
| 23. | B | series of inventions and innovations that reduced the number of people needed to work | Paragraph B, lines 4-6 |
| 24. | temporary | 20-25 percent of the workforce will be temporary workers | Paragraph F, Lines 15-16 |
| 25. | home | 50 percent will work from home in some form | Paragraph F, Lines 18 |
| 26. | factors | organisational managers and decision-makers, the factors which trigger organisational change. | Paragraph G, Last 2 lines |
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