II. Ответьте на следующие вопросы.

1. What does the term “manager” mean?

2. What is a personnel manager responsible for?

3. What kind of manager is responsible for the finance of the company?

4. What do managers have to do in their job?

5. Who leads the subordinates?

6. What does the manager’s work depend on?

7. Do managers have to use authority?

8. Who do managers delegate their authority to?

9. Do you think managers should let their employees use their initiative?

10. Do you think it is difficult to be a manager?

III. Выполните следующие упражнения.

1. Подберите русские однокоренные слова:

director, administrator, president, system, personnel, risk, period, authority, delegate.

2. Найдите в тексте английские эквиваленты следующих слов и словосочетаний:

ряд терминов, коммерческие организации (организации, которые получают прибыль), применять, принятие решений, штат сотрудников, зависеть от чего-то, подчинённый, власть (авторитет), использовать инициативу.

3. Закончите следующие предложения.

1. Managers are people who are responsible for…

2. A personnel manager directly…

3. Financial manager is a person who is responsible for…

4. Sales manager is responsible for…

5. Almost everything a manager does involves…

6. When a problem exists a manager has…

7. Manager has to do a lot within…

8. To lead their subordinates, managers have…

4. Представьте, что вы работаете менеджером одной крупной фирмы.

Пользуясь информацией, данной в тексте, опишите работу, которую выполняют следующие менеджеры:

1. You are a sales manager.

2. You are a finance manager.

3. You are a personnel manager.

5. Дополните предложения подходящими по смыслу словами и словосочетаниями из текста:

staff, personnel manager, depend on, initiative(2), delegates, supervises

1. The … of this small company are only 40 lawyers, but they are a real team.

2. Our … … often organizes special training courses for us.

3. The future of our company fully … on the qualification of its employees.

4. The seminar was organized on the … of our young engineers.

5. My boss thinks that I am a very experienced employee, so he often…

his authority to me . I often sign very important documents for him.

6. That was his … to invite our Swedish partners to visit our plant in Kaluga.

7. The personnel manager … the students’ work.

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I. Прочитайте и переведите текст. При необходимости пользуйтесь словарём. Better utilization of resources

“Resource utilization” is becoming a very popular term in management theory. It means that you should achieve greater economy in the use of everything – metals, minerals, energy, water, manpower, finance, etc. The main management technique is better cost control. We have to answer the question: “How can we achieve the same value of output while reducing all our resource inputs?” The answer is: “ We must improve quality and standards required by consumers and industrial customers and make longer our product’s life. Secondly, we must include economy in the use of natural resources as they are scarce. It may be the best way to use scarce resources”.

The best solution for companies is to set up a resource utilization section. For small companies with 1000 employees two men will be enough.

The company’s management must be very responsible. Resource utilization must not be harmful for people and damage our environment.

Слова и выражения:

achieve ( v ) - достигать, добиваться

achievement ( n, C) – достижение

consumer ( n, C ) – потребитель

cost control - контроль за затратами

damage ( n, C/U) - ущерб, повреждение

damage ( v ) - повреждать, наносить ущерб

economy ( n, C) - экономия, экономика страны

employee ( n, C) – служащий

environment ( n, U/C) - окружающая среда

harmful ( adj) – вредный

industry ( n, C) - промышленность, отрасль промышленности

industrial ( adj ) – промышленный

industrial customer – зд. покупатель промышленной продукции

input ( n, U) – подача, снабжение, затраты

manpower (n, U) - рабочая сила

output ( n, U) – выпуск продукции

resource ( n, C) - ресурс

scarce ( adj) - недостаточный, скудный

technique ( n, U) – приём, способ

utilize ( v ) - использовать

utilization ( n, U) – использование