It is quite common for a company to recruit new employees. When a company seeks to fill a vacant job, it may advertise the 【B1】 , promote someone from 【B2】 , or ask an outside employment agency to send applicants. After interviewing, checking references, and perhaps 【B3】 a few tests, the company selects 【B4】 employee from among the applicants. The new worker will usually 【B5】 some training. Large companies find 【B6】 necessary to develop ways of 【B7】 evaluating the performance of workers; they usually devise objective 【B8】 for measuring the quality and quantity of work and consider 【B9】 in addition to the supervisors’’ impressions.
Most workers are paid by the hour or by the day. In some industries, however, the 【B10】 speed can be controlled by the individual, and 【B11】 is based on "piece rates". The 【B12】 type of piece rate is a specific amount of money for each item produced, but most incentive(激励的) system are more 【B13】 For example, an employee may received a standard base rate 【B14】 additional pay for items produced over a given 【B15】 The rate of extra pay may vary, 【B16】 with each subsequent item produced. 【B17】 the worker may receive a bonus for the amount of time saved in performing a 【B18】 . Developing a satisfactory incentive system requires that trained experts determine 【B19】 workers can reasonably be expected to produce and what 【B20】 be considered fair rates of pay for producing different amounts.