- •Н.В. Лобастова
- •Management
- •Английский язык Management Учебное пособие
- •Предисловие
- •Starting up
- •Reading
- •2. Complete the following sentences using suitable words or phrases given below.
- •3. Divide the following styles of behavior into pairs of opposites.
- •4. Translate the following text into English. Что такое менеджмент?
- •Introducing yourself and organization you work for.
- •Instructions
- •Unit 2 Company structure
- •1. Read the three descriptions of company structures. Answer the questions.
- •1. Read the text about different ways of organizing companies, and then give
- •2. Read the text about centralization and decentralization and then discuss the
- •1. Decide whether the following statements are true or false. Support yourself
- •1. Match the words or phrases on the left with the words from the text on the
- •2. Complete the following sentences with suitable forms of the words.
- •4. Use the spaces below to write a short description of your department. Use the
- •Information given above.
- •5. Translate the following sentences into English.
- •6. Make up the description of any organization chart, or a company you
- •Case study Faredeal Travel Agency: Reorganize the structure, layout and working practices of a travel company.
- •Director 1 Director 2
- •Confidential
- •The office space is not used efficiently and needs a complete reorganization. (For example, Accounts and General Office staff have to walk too far to the photocopying room, etc).
- •Working conditions: staff survey
- •1. In your opinion, which factors below are important for getting a job?
- •Listening You will hear David Smyth, the Personnel Manager of a major European insurance company, answering questions about the way he interviews and selects candidates.
- •Language focus
- •2. Match the questions with the responses.
- •Responses
- •3. What are the terms for the following? Use the terms from the exercise above.
- •4. It’s a common thing that the employers look for three qualities in recruits:
- •5. Translate the sentences into English using the following word partnerships:
- •6. The letter of application
- •Below you will find the details from the letter of application. Look at the outline of the letter on the left and indicate where the information below should go.
- •1. Name: Isabella Rosetti
- •2. Name: Michael Bolen
- •Unit 4 Planning and Strategy
- •1. You will read the text about different stages of planning and their importance
- •Listening Developing a strategy
- •Language focus
- •1. Match up the words from the left with the words from the right to make
- •2. A. Match the phrase, describing a position of a company, with their definitions
- •3. Complete the following sentences using suitable words given below.
- •4. Phrasal verbs.
- •5. Complete the following passage with the correct form of the words below.
- •Questions
- •8. Translate the following text into English.
- •Troubled times for Benson Group
- •Describe the company’s profile according to the main points of swot analysis: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
- •Innovative strategy Words to remember:
- •Starting up How important is creativity in business? Are creativity and innovation the same things? What are the conditions for creativity in business? Here what the psychologists think:
- •Adapted extracts from Jack Welch Speaks, by Janet Lowe Language focus
- •1. Find words or phrases in the quotations which suggest the idea of change.
- •2. Find words or phrases in the quotations which mean:
- •3. Translate the following text into English using the following words in the
- •1.Make the matching of the words and phrases from the text with their
- •2. Replace the words in italics with the words from exercise 1.
- •3. Verbs and prepositions
- •4. Complete the following sentences with appropriate verbs:
- •5. Complete the following passage with the correct forms of the following words:
- •6. Translate the following text into English
- •8. Complete the following sentences with the correct form of either ‘do’ or
- •Identifying needs Stating future actions
- •Case study Texan Chicken: Work out a strategy to save a failing fast food company
- •Present situation
- •Unit 6 Goal-setting
- •1. Match the words and phrases from the text with their definitions on the right.
- •2. Complete the following passage, using suitable forms of the words given
- •3. Match up the words given below with the italicized words in the text.
- •4. Translate the following text into English.
- •1. Pamela Pickford train business people to make presentations. Which of the
- •2. Comment on the following statements. In your opinion are they:
- •1. Introducing yourself 2. Structuring the presentation
- •3. Inventing questions 4. Giving background information
- •5. Referring the audience’s knowledge. 6. Changing the topic.
- •9. Ending
- •Guidelines for presenters
- •Words to remember:
- •1. Match up the words on the left with their definitions on the right.
- •2. Opposites
- •3. Read the following guidelines for managers. Agree with them and say why.
- •4. Which of the words below can describe possible indicators of:
- •5. Translate the following sentences into English
- •1. Find the best synonym. Match the words and expressions on the left with
- •2. Complete the following sentences with the correct form of the words in
- •Italics. Translate them.
- •3. Addition and contrast
- •4. Analyzing personality types and identifying strengths and weaknesses.
- •1. Listen to a description of a graph below and complete the text. Draw the graph.
- •2. Listen to descriptions of other Finnish exports to Japan, draw the graphs,
- •Instructions
- •1. Match the words from the text on the left with their definitions on the right.
- •2. Which adjectives below describe positive aspects of someone’s character?
- •3. Use the relative pronouns below to complete these quotations. Which gap does not need a relative pronoun? Translate the quotations into Russian.
- •4. Look through the differences between managers and leaders. Speak on them.
- •5. Paragraphs 1-9 contain advice for business leaders. Choose the appropriate
- •Indicating priorities
- •1. Unit 1 Manager’s role
- •1. Listen to seven people talking about their work and decide which department
- •4. Innovative strategy
- •Unit 6 Goal-setting
- •1. Presentation
- •2. Presentation
- •2. Pam talks about herself
- •Ian talks about himself and Stephen
1.Make the matching of the words and phrases from the text with their
corresponding definitions.
1) an idea basing on feeling rather than a) constraint
on reason or facts
2) consider carefully, assess b) secure a contract
3) immediately, without delay c) introduce
4) put into practice, fulfil d) option
5) take a middle course of action e) judgment
6) watch carefully f) arise
7) important matter g) update
8) bear in mind, consider, remember h) hunch, gut-feeling
9) to get as the result of effort i) weigh up
10) build, establish j) on the spot
11) specialize in k) locate, set up
12) launch the product l) upgrade.
13) firm’s growth m) take into account
14) make better n) compromise
15) choice, possible course of action o) produce
16) opinion p) monitor
17) occur, appear q) issue
18) restriction, limit r) implement
19) modernize s) concentrate on
20) manufacture t) expansion
2. Replace the words in italics with the words from exercise 1.
1. Gerard Philips set up (____) a company in Eindhoven.
2. The company initially specialized in (____) making carbon-filament lamps.
3. Developments in new lighting technologies fuelled a steady plan for growth (____).
4. In 1983 the company introduced (____) the compact disc onto the market.
5. Each day its factories produce (____) a total of 50 million integrated circuits.
6. Royal Phillips Electronics is run (____) by the Board of Management.
7. The Supervisory Board carefully watches (____) the general course of business.
8. Policies are put into practice (____) by the Group Management Committee.
9. The Group of Management Committee serves to ensure that important matters (____) are shared across the company.
10. Internal rules and principles of the company don’t limit (____) the actions of top management.
11. An intuition (____) based on expertise is always kept in mind (____) while taking an important decision.
3. Verbs and prepositions
Some verbs are always followed by the same preposition. Look at the
example:
The policies of the company are implemented by the Group Management Committee, which consists of the members of the Board of Management.
Match the prepositions with the verbs below
from in (3) to (5) for of on (3)
a. apply ….. somebody …. something g. refer …..
b. benefit …… h. succeed …..
c. contribute ……. i. belong ….
d. approve ….. j. concentrate …..
e. result …… k. depend ……
f. believe …… l. report … somebody … something
Complete the sentences using verbs and prepositions from exercise above in the correct form.
1. In the purchasing department there is a manager, and five employees who ____
her.
2. In the beginning, the company ____ making carbon-filament lamps.
3. In our company we firmly ____ the value of creativity and innovation.
4. The development of computer technology has ____ enormous changes in the way that people work.
5. Whether or not we succeed in creating and selling new products ____ a number of factors.
6. Most of our staff ____ at least one of the company’s sports or leisure clubs.
7. The Personnel Manager thinks that we would all ____ further training in how to use the office software.
8. Everybody in the organization should ____ its development.