# Why companies should welcome disorder: answers and explanations

Cambridge IELTS 14, Test 2, Reading Passage 3

Source: Passage, questions and answer key from Cambridge IELTS 14, Test 2, Reading Passage 3. © Cambridge University Press & Assessment. Used for educational practice. Explanations and evidence notes are written by Testmigo.

## Answer key

| Q | Answer | Proof |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 27 | vi | We are told that we ought to organise our company, our home life, our week, our day and even our sleep ... We have more strategies for time management, project management and self-organisation than at any other time in human history. |
| 28 | i | A large proportion of workers from all demographics claim to be dissatisfied with the way their work is structured and the way they are managed. |
| 29 | iii | Writing in the first half of the 20th century, he designed a number of principles to improve the efficiency of the work process |
| 30 | ii | it's the basic assumptions we hold in approaching how we work. Here it's the assumption that order is a necessary condition for productivity. |
| 31 | ix | if the cost of formally structuring something outweighs the benefit of doing it, then that thing ought not to be formally structured. |
| 32 | vii | These environments can lead to new solutions that, under conventionally structured environments ... would never be reached. |
| 33 | iv | In recent times companies have slowly started to embrace this disorganisation. |
| 34 | viii | disorder, much like order, also seems to have diminishing utility, and can also have detrimental effects on performance if overused. |
| 35 | productive | all as a means to becoming more productive. ... countless seminars and workshops take place around the world |
| 36 | perfectionists | much to the delight of self-proclaimed perfectionists with the need to get everything right. |
| 37 | dissatisfied | claim to be dissatisfied with the way their work is structured and the way they are managed. |
| 38 | TRUE | businesses and people spend time and money organising themselves for the sake of organising, rather than actually looking at the end goal and usefulness of such an effort. |
| 39 | FALSE | the best approach is to create an environment devoid of structure and hierarchy and enable everyone involved to engage as one organic group. |
| 40 | NOT GIVEN | Google and a number of other tech companies have embraced (at least in part) these kinds of flexible structures |

## Why these answers are right

**27. vi.** Section A describes a growing industry telling us to organize our companies, homes, weeks, days and even sleep, with more strategies than ever before. Being told we ought to do more and more of this matches heading vi, what people are increasingly expected to do.

**28. i.** Section B notes that business failures and work stress have risen, and that many workers say they are dissatisfied with how their work is structured and managed. Workers voicing unhappiness about the effects of the organized approach fits heading i, complaints about the impact of a certain approach.

**29. iii.** Section C introduces Frederick Taylor, an early figure in scientific management who, in the first half of the 20th century, set out principles to make work more efficient. These are early recommendations about how businesses should operate, so heading iii matches this section.

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