【正确答案】While American firms often talk about the vast amounts spent on training their workforces，in fact they invest less in the skill of their employees than do the Japanese or German firms．The money they do invest is also more highly concentrated on professional and managerial employees．And the limited investments that are made in training workers are also much more narrowly focused on the specific skills necessary to do the next job rather than on the basic background skills that make it possible to absorb new technologies．