A parcel depot divides its work into separate jobs. For six years, one employee has done nothing but scan address labels. The employee now applies for a job as a care assistant. Which is the most likely difficulty the employee faces in making this move?
Years of scanning may have given the employee too wide a range of skills to show a clear strength
Repeating one task may have made the employee slower at it than staff who rotated between jobs
The employee may be able to work only when other staff have completed the earlier stages
The narrow skill the employee built up at the depot may not transfer to caring work
84 exam-style questions on AQA GCSE Economics 1.2 Resource allocation, covering 1.2.1a Markets, 1.2.1b Allocation of resources, 1.2.1c Factor and product markets, 1.2.2a Primary, secondary and tertiary sectors, 1.2.2b Goods and services, 1.2.3a Specialisation and the division of labour, 1.2.3b How and why producers specialise, and 1.2.3c Costs and benefits of the division of labour. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.