1 . Have you ever noticed the following thing? When two colleagues prepare for identical presentations, the _________of the work is the same, but one works better?

Morten Hansen has such a(n)_________personal experience. “When I was in a company in London, I worked really hard and tried to_________,” he says. “And I did. But I found my colleagues working more_________than I was, and they also performed better though they did less. That made me confused.”

The_________ stayed with him and he_________ to find the answers. He carried out a study, surveying more than 5,000_________over five years to figure out how they worked, and what_________working pattern had on their performance.

After the data was analyzed, some surprising conclusions appeared. “We always think that by doing more, we will_________more,” he says. “Actually, what we’ve found is that top performers do the__________and they are very selective. They do less, and then they excel in those few things and that's how they__________the rest. It's almost a contrary view on how you are supposed to__________and behave.”

Do less to perform better- that indeed has its__________. But what if your boss doesn't__________it and keeps piling on the work? Just__________it in an appropriate manner and you'll find that you're more capable of doing your job.

2 . In recent years many countries of the world have been faced with the problem of how to make their workers more productive. Some experts say the ____is to make jobs more varied. But do more varied jobs ____greater productivity?There is evidence to suggest that ____variety certainly makes the worker’s life more enjoyable, it doesn’t     ____make him work harder. As far as increasing productivity is concerned, then, ____is not an important factor .

Other experts feel that giving the worker ____to do his job in his own way is important, and there is no doubt that this is true. The ____is that this kind of freedom can’t easily be given in the modern factory with its complicated machinery which must be used in a ____way. Thus while freedom of choice may be important, there is usually very little that can be done to ____it .

Another important ____is how much each worker ____to the product he is making. In most factories the worker ____only one small part of the product. Some car factories are now ____with having many small production lines rather than one large one , so that each worker contributes more to the production of the cars on his ____. It would seem that not only is degree of worker contribution an important factor ____it is one we can do something about.

To what ____does more money lead to greater productivity? The workers themselves certainly think this is ____. But perhaps they want more money only because the work they do is so boring. ____just lets them enjoy their spare time more. A ____argument may explain demands for shorter working hours. Perhaps if we ____ making their jobs more interesting, they will neither want more money, nor will shorter working hours be so important to them.