Use this concept to your advantage. If you know when and under what conditions you will take the TOEFL®, simulate these in your study environment and habits. For instance, if you plan to take the TOEFL® on a Saturday afternoon, then take a point to study in the afternoons. | Business Read the following passage. Then fill in the diagram with the information that you read. A key determinant of a company s success is its level of productivity. Productivity measures the time it takes workers to produce a particular product. Developing good employee attitudes and creating incentives for employees improve a business s productivity and effectiveness. A well-managed company encourages behavior in its employees that causes an increase in productivity. Many characteristics are associated with well-directed companies. These include having high expectations for employees work performance trusting employees and treating them with respect. These characteristics improve a worker s attitude. It goes without saying that satisfied workers tend to be more productive. Companies that show great organizational skills also try to engage employees in the workplace. They do this in the hopes that the employee will work hard to make the company more efficient and competitive in the market. A company may for example engage its employees by challenging them to be creative team players in the company. Allowing creativity and teamwork can make employees feel successful in their job. This leads to improvements in productivity. incentive something that makes - . someone want to work harder engage to involve someone in a particular activity quota a minimum amount of something that someone . needs to do . . attain to succeed at . accomplishing something stock . a share of money held by an investor profitable making money enable to provide somebody with . the ability to do something Good attitudes also arise when well-managed companies motivate workers to do well in their jobs. The motivation employees receive from a company makes them feel useful and appreciated which increases productivity. This motivation can come in the form of goals. Interestingly goals do not have to be set particularly high. As an illustration the computer company IBM wanted to increase .
