作業16
When I read the eighth paragraph, I had some questions about the words “labor/management policy” that in the last of the first sentence. What is labor/management policy? Which does the labor/management policy include? Found some materials, but I couldn’t find the answers. So I wanted to ask teacher. In the second sentence, the expression “all too” is used to emphasize that something happens to a greater extent or degree than is pleasant or desirable. Similarly we can use “only too” this way. I found a lot of materials and understood the meaning of the whole sentence is a number of companies have learned by experience that bad decisions on the part of management can create a negative impression on the public. In the next sentence, the expression “a year of profits” refers to a year during which the company made a profit. I wanted to know why the author not uses “within the company” but uses “within its own ranks”. The same as the front of sentence, the meaning of the sentence is the public will remember for a long time that Texaco failed to stop racial discrimination within its own organization.
In the ninth paragraph, the word “celebrate” puzzled me,so I looked it up in the dictionary, the meaning of the word is to praise someone or something. I couldn’t understand the meaning of “high- profile reporters”, I found some materials,and knew the meaning is exposed to publicity or attracting attention. The author uses the example to explain that more and more companies are celebrating differences among people.
In my opinion, in a company the workers is the most important conditions, if the company make its workers feel happy and at ease, they will work hard and have high efficiency, so the company will develop very fast. It has a good cycle. So the companies in paragraph eight are defeated, the company in paragraph nine is succeedable.
