- •Contents
- •Вступне слово
- •Management as a science
- •Introduction
- •Use of the essential vocabulary
- •Applied grammar
- •Write what he/she did and what he/she didn’t do yesterday:
- •Your manager has just come back from a business trip. Ask him/her about:
- •Say, what he/she will do at this time:
- •Past Simple of the following verbs: to win, to spend, to begin, to invite, to like, to award, to send, to sell, to pay, to teach.
- •Future Simple of the following verbs: to give, to have, to come, to start, to launch, to be, to start, to get, to work, to visit.
- •Reading and writing
- •Text 1. Management
- •Text 2. Mary parker follett: mother of modern management
- •Developing speaking skills
- •English course agreements:
- •Planning and organising
- •Introduction
- •Use of the essential vocabulary
- •Applied grammar
- •Some, any, no. Translate them and explain your choice.
- •Many, much, few, little. Translate them and explain your choice.
- •Present Continuous, put questions to them and give negative answers.
- •Past Continuous, put questions to them and give negative answers.
- •Past Continuous.
- •Future Continuous.
- •Future Simple or Future Continuous.
- •Reading and writing
- •Text 1. Planning
- •Text 2. Organising
- •Figure 1. Organisation with Narrow Span
- •Figure 2. Organisation with Wide Span
- •Developing speaking skills
- •Directing and controlling
- •Introduction
- •Use of the essential vocabulary
- •Applied grammar
- •You have a meeting with your partner. Ask him about his business. Use the following words:
- •You have just come back from a business trip. Tell your colleagues about it:
- •You have a plan of activities for your working day. Explain what you will have done by the definite time:
- •The modal verb May according to the model and translate them: I wish you organise the meeting. – You might organise the meeting.
- •The modal verb Must according to the model and translate them: I am sure your manager is a highly qualified specialist. – Your manager must be a highly qualified specialist.
- •The modal verb Can:
- •The modal verbs May, Can, Might and Could:
- •The modal verbs Must, Had to:
- •Reading and writing
- •Text 1. Directing
- •Text 2. Controlling
- •Developing speaking skills
- •Land auction
- •Business organisation and marketing
- •Introduction
- •Use of the essential vocabulary
- •Applied grammar
- •Reading and writing
- •Text 1. The basic forms of business organisation
- •Text 2. The main concepts of marketing
- •Developing speaking skills
- •Financial and risk management
- •Introduction
- •Use of the essential vocabulary
- •Applied grammar
- •I said, “I involved short-term and long-term forecasting, budgeting and financial controls” – I said that I had involved short-term and long-term forecasting, budgeting and financial controls.
- •Reading and writing
- •Text 1. Financial management
- •Text 2. Risk management and insurance
- •Developing speaking skills
- •Human resource management
- •Introduction
- •Use of the essential vocabulary
- •Applied grammar
- •I manage our delivery department. I am proud of it. – I am proud to manage our delivery department.
- •I was adjusted to new working conditions. I am glad of it. – I am glad to have been adjusted to new working conditions.
- •I have not seen the new production line. I am sorry about it. – I am sorry not to have seen the new production line.
- •Reading and writing
- •Text 1. Management and leadership
- •Text 2. Motivation and human resource management
- •Developing speaking skills
- •The profession of a manager
- •Introduction
- •Use of the essential vocabulary
- •Applied grammar
- •Most of employers who work in human resource department are head hunters. – Most of employers working in human resource department are head hunters.
- •Managers who are working in financial department are analysing financial contracts. – Managers working in financial department are analysing financial contracts.
- •When he read the report, he found a lot of errors. – When reading the report, he found a lot of errors.
- •When he discussed everything with the partner, he signed the contract. – Having discussed everything with the partner, he signed the contract.
- •Our office is situated in the building, which was built last year. – Our office is situated in the building built last year.
- •I saw them as they were planning the change and how they were moving from the present to the ideal. – I saw them planning the change and moving from the present to the ideal.
- •As my colleague was on a business trip, I prepared the financial report. – My colleague being on a business trip, I prepared the financial report.
- •As his partner had prepared the report, they went home. – His partner having prepared the report, they went home.
- •When the work had been done, they phoned to the office. – The work having been done, they phoned to the office.
- •Reading and writing
- •Text 1. The profession of a manager
- •Text 2. Professional and personal skills of a manager
- •Developing speaking skills
- •Opening a New Restaurant
- •Business research and research ethics
- •Introduction
- •Use of the essential vocabulary
- •Applied grammar
- •After he forecasted changes in the market, he began to work as an analyst. – After forecasting changes in the market, he began to work as an analyst.
- •She insisted that she should solve the problem herself. – She insisted on solving the problem herself.
- •He insisted that he should be eliminated from the team. – He insisted on being eliminated from the team.
- •I want to get your report very much. – I am looking forward to getting your report.
- •It gave me much pleasure to work with you. – I enjoyed working with you.
- •It is useless to apply old methods. – It is no use applying old methods.
- •I am a team leader. I am proud of it. – I am proud of being a team leader.
- •He is given important information. He is proud of it. – He is proud of being given important information.
- •He was given important information. He is proud of it. – He is proud of having been given important information.
- •I did not request permission. I planned the interview myself. – Instead of requesting permission, I planned the interview myself.
- •Reading and writing
- •Text 1. Business research
- •Text 2. Research ethics
- •Developing speaking skills
- •Peculiarities of business communication
- •Introduction
- •Use of the essential vocabulary
- •Applied grammar
- •The Infinitive and its complexes:
- •The Gerund and its complexes:
- •The Participle and its complexes:
- •Reading and writing
- •Text 1. Problems of cultural differences
- •Text 2. Nonverbal communication: body positions and movements
- •Developing speaking skills
- •Body talk.
- •Information technologies in management
- •Introduction
- •Use of the essential vocabulary
- •Applied grammar
- •Knowledge is a key to success, so there are so many ways to gather and keep information. – If knowledge weren’t a key to success, there wouldn’t be so many ways to gather and keep information.
- •I didn’t know about telecommuting, so I didn’t use it. – If I had known about telecommuting, I would have used it.
- •I am sorry an online chart room is not available in my computer now. – I wish an online chart room were available in my computer now.
- •It’s a pity, I had such poor information about ongoing situation. – I wish I hadn’t had such poor information about ongoing situation.
- •I advise you to stop your attempts in this sphere of business. – You had better stop your attempts in this sphere of business.
- •I prefer to use a chat room. – I would (had) rather (sooner) use a chat room.
- •Subjunctive I.
- •Subjunctive II.
- •Reading and writing
- •Text 1. Information technologies for electronic commerce
- •Text 2. Management information system
- •Developing speaking skills
- •Head-hunting and job hunting
- •Introduction
- •Use of the essential vocabulary
- •Applied grammar
- •Referring to the Present and Future (Conditional II);
- •Referring to the Past (Conditional III).
- •Reading and writing
- •Text 1. Head-hunting
- •Text 2. Job hunting
- •Developing speaking skills
- •How to choose the best career?
- •Famous ukrainian names
- •In economics and management
- •Introduction
- •Use of the essential vocabulary
- •Applied grammar
- •Reading and writing
- •Text 1. The development of administration and management as a science in ukraine
- •Text 2. Mykhailo tuhan-baranovskyy
- •Developing speaking skills
- •Extended reading
- •Inquiring minds want to know – now!
- •Violence on tv
- •International electronic cash
- •Ivan vernadskyy
- •Tests for self-control
- •Keys to tests
- •Grammar reference
- •§ 1. The noun
- •§ 2. Pronouns
- •§ 3. Verb tenses
- •Past Simple Tense
- •§ 4. Modal verbs
- •§ 5. The verb: passive voice
- •§ 6. Direct and indirect speech
- •Changes of Verb tense forms when transferring sentences from Direct into Indirect Speech
- •§ 7. The infinitive
- •§ 8. The participle
- •§ 9. The gerund
- •§ 10. The verbal complexes: comparison
- •Syntactic functions of the verbals: comparison
- •§ 11. The subjunctive mood
- •The suppositional mood is used in:
- •§ 12. Conditional sentences
- •§ 13. The compound sentence
- •§ 14. The complex sentence
- •Vocabulary
- •Literature
- •Іноземна мова професійного спрямування (англійська мова для менеджерів)
Applied grammar
(see GRAMMAR REFERENCE § 3, 4)
Task 14. Make the following sentences interrogative and negative:
1. We have conducted the activity of our company according to objectives and plans. 2. They have evaluated their activity against plans. 3. He has tested the feedforward control model. 4. Managers have exercised a variety of tools and techniques in controlling. 5. She has applied internal and external information to the enterprise in a timely manner. 6. They have measured our performance in accordance with standards. 7. Managers have taken the corrective measures. 8. The director of our firm has signed the document. 9. The top manager has integrated several types of budgets. 10. They have used statistical data and their analyses, special reports and analyses, the operational audit and personal observation among the traditional nonbudgetary control devices.
1. We had developed control standards to the local environment before our plant started production. 2. Our company had prevented deviations by selecting competent managers before the crisis occurred. 3. The manager had illustrated a comparison of feedforward and feedback control systems in his presentation before I asked him a question. 4. Before the president came, we had prepared the plan of corrective measures. 5. The managers had prepared the revenue and expense budgets by that time. 6. Their plan failed because they had ignored the quality of the product. 7. The income increased because they had used information technology telecommunication means. 8. The personnel managers had used vocational tests before they chose candidates to vacant positions in the company. 9. He had designed several techniques to improve the interviewing process before he began job interviews with applicants. 10. Before he made a decision he had interviewed hundreds of candidates.
Task 15. Put the verbs into the correct form of Present Perfect:
1. Computers ___ (to contribute) to telecommuting, which means that people may work at home at a computer terminal that is linked to a company’s mainframe computer. 2. They ___ (to find out) that 90% of all failures is the result of poor management. 3. We ___ (to develop) such relations among employees of our company that they contribute to accomplishing our organisation’s goals. 4. Computer technology___ (to change), so selecting the best system is complicated. 5. He ___ (to spend) a lot of time analysing the business environment. 6. He ___ (to finish) the audit of financial department. 7. The team ___ (to develop) more cooperation and coordination. 8. Everyone ___ (to work) together to conceive, develop and market products. 9. Educational advancement ___ (to serve) as a direct avenue for people, who desire to start their own business. 10. Entrepreneurship ___ (to be) so successful in small firms that larger companies are trying to adopt their experience.
Task 16. Imagine that you work in a company.
You have a meeting with your partner. Ask him about his business. Use the following words:
up to now; up to the present; lately; recently; so far; since; not yet; for a long time; for ten years; since January.