- •Business for beginners деловой английский для начинающих минск
- •Introduction to economy
- •The economic system
- •Vocabualry excersices
- •Unit 2 business organization
- •Organization
- •Types and forms of business organization
- •Why are companies referred to as Ltd; Inc; GmbH; or s.A.?
- •Becoming a learning organization
- •Vocabulary excersices
- •Questions for review
- •What are cross cultural differences?
- •Intercultural management
- •Working across cultures
- •Individualistic or collectivist?
- •High-context and low - context culture styles
- •Corporate culture and national characteristics
- •Vocabulary excersices
- •In accordance with, in advance, in arrears, in circulation, in due course,
- •In error, in a position to, in the process of, in round figures,
- •In stock, in transit, in debt
- •Questions for review
- •Lexical minimum
- •Unit 4 corporate culture
- •First impressions
- •Our values
- •The kritz-carlteen corporate philosophy
- •Vocabulary excersices
- •Questions for review
- •Unit 5 management
- •Approaches to management
- •Art or science?
- •Principles of management
- •Scientific management
- •Management by Objectives
- •What is outscourcing?
- •Краудсорсинг
- •Vocabulary excercises
- •Ex. 7. Complete the following table.
- •Questions for review
- •Lexical minimum
- •Management: Art or Science?
- •Management as a profession
- •Which bosses are best?
- •What makes a good manager?
- •Richard branson’s 10 secrets of success
- •How to be a great manager
- •International managers
- •Leadership styles
- •The Three Classic Styles of Leadership
- •Leadership vs management
- •Теории и типы лидерства
- •V0cabulary excersices
- •Questions for review
- •Lexical minimum
- •Hr activities and objectives
- •Recruiting
- •Job specification
- •People in organization
- •Happiness at work
- •The concepts of ability and motivation
- •Employee motivation theories
- •Incentive scheme or cash?
- •Vocabulary excersices
- •Questions for review
- •Lexical minimum
- •Examination topic
- •Evolution of marketig
- •What is marketing?
- •Vocabulary excersices
- •Historical milestones in advertising
- •Advertising
- •Does advertising make us too materialistic?
- •Public relations
- •Vocabualry excersices
- •7 A jingle is a short tune to g) whom the advertisement is intended to appeal
- •Key terms: Advertising, advertisement (ad, advert), publicity, bying habbits, advertising campaign, positioning, promotion, advertiser, commercial
- •Unit 10
- •Teamwork and team developmeny
- •Understanding team roles
- •I. Typical features:
- •II. Positive qualities:
- •III. Allowable weaknesses:
- •How to build a winning team
- •Vocabulary excersices
- •Questions for review
- •Lexical minimum
- •Examination topic Teambuilding
- •Become smarter and quickcer
- •Nine steps that can nhelp you (?) (!)
- •Case analysis
- •Personality and decision making
- •Managing Projects
- •Meetings
- •Vocabulary excersices
- •Verb Noun (concept) Noun (agent) Adjective
- •Questions for review
- •Lexical minimum
- •Examination topic Problem solving
Vocabulary excersices
Ex.1. Give the Russian equivalents to the following word-combinations.
Accomplish the task; chief requirements for success; transform resources into outputs; carry out responsibilities; subunits and groups; ad hoc organizations; once the goal is achieved; business entity; perform services for a fee; ready for sale; convert into products; created by an agreement; withdrawal of a partner; CEO; shares of stock; public company; openly traded on a stock exchange; limited liability; when a company goes bankrupt; types of transactions; two organizations share in the ownership; expand their capacity; expansive patterns of thinking; build a shared vision; encourage professional development; in response to individual needs; for the organization to survive; unpredictability of economic situations; risks specific to each sector; to anticipate shifting customer profile; most responsive to change; alter the variables; the input is incomplete; high-trust societies; low-abiding cultures; high trust among and between people.
Ex. 2. Study the following words and word combinations and translate the sentences given below into Russian. Consult a dictionary if necessary.
mean business, none of one’s business, go out of business, businesslike, be busy with, have no business to do, be in business, like nobody’s business, mind one’s own business
1. Mother has busied herself with our affairs for too long.
2. When traveling on business I take my tiny travel kit.
3. Let’s get down to business.
4. She had no business to publish his letters to her.
5. 50% of these stores were not in business five years ago.
6. They are working away like nobody’s business.
7. Umbrella sellers went out of business.
8. Stop teaching me! It’s none of your business.
9. Listen to me! I mean business!
10.The visit to Copenhagen was brisk and businesslike.
Ex 3. The words given below are the synonyms to the word organization. In what do they differ? Give your own definition to each of them.
Institution, council, body, entity, fund, trust, party, club, society, association, league, federation, union
Ex. 4. Match the words listed below with the dictionary definitions which follow. There are some odd words.
accountability, effort, pattern, requirement, accomplish, existence, consumer, foster, affect, establish, benefit, involve, adaptability, justify
Create or set it up in a way that is intended to be permanent.
Help its development or growth by encouraging people to do or think about it.
Something that you must do or possess in order to be allowed to do some other thing.
The state of being real, alive, or actual.
Energy in the form of thought, action, time, or money that people use in their work.
It influences someone or something or causes them to change in some way.
Succeed in doing or finishing something.
Being responsible for and prepared to justify one’s actions.
A good result of something.
A person who buys things or uses services.
A particular, recognizable way in which something is done or organized.
To include somebody or something as a necessary part or use them in some way.
Ex.5. Give the synonyms to the following words. Make up your own sentences to show the shades in their meaning.
To handle, to accomplish, goal, benefit, to coerce, to achieve, to purchase, output, to affect, to establish, to enhance, power.
Ex.6. Translate the following sentences into Russian. Pay attention to the economic and business terms.
. Business is the production, buying, and selling of goods and services.
. A business, company, or firm is an organization that sells goods or services.
. A business is also may be referred to as an enterprise to emphasize its adventurous, risk-taking qualities, and business in general may be referred to as free enterprise and private enterprise.
. Large companies are referred to as corporations, especially in the US.
. Large companies operating in many countries are multinationals.
. An entrepreneur is usually someone who builds up a company from nothing: a start-up company.
. The people legally responsible for a company are its board or board of directors.
. When a private company is bought by the state and brought into the public sector, it is nationalized.
. When the state returns a company to the private sector in a sell-off, it is privatized.
. A holding or holding company is one that holds stakes in one or more subsidiaries.
. A holding company’s relationship to its subsidiaries is that of parent company.
Which words and word-combinations from ex. 6. do you consider to be economic and business terms? Explain what they mean.
Ex.7. Read the text. Fill in the blanks with the missing words given below.
Monitor, interrelate, integral, report, exaggerate, law, impact, flow of cash, resources, customers, stock, range, information, activity, prerequisite, process, subject, nervous
Communication in organization
Effective communication is a ...1 for the achievement of organizational objectives. The importance of communication problems has at times been ...2 -there are, after all, other types of problems - but the ...3 of poor communication can be enormous.
The …4 of communication is illusive because it is intertwined with so many other subjects. Effective communication is, for example, an …5 part of effective leadership, decision making, motivation, the management organizational conflict, etc. Communication in organization is here defined as the process by which …6 is transmitted from one person to another.
Money is the lifeblood of an organization: if organizations do not receive a ... ...7 they go out of business. Information plays a similar role. The flow of facts, figures and words through an organization’s administration is its …8 system. The nature and flow of information determines how «sensitive» an organization to its ..., 9employees, changes in the market, and so on. The purpose in ...10 information is to plan, record, control and report the activities of the organization.
Planning. Managers need information to be able to plan how an organization’s …11 are to be used. This can be a complex process since each department’s plan must ...12 with the other departments.
Recording. Firms are obliged to keep financial information under the …13 .
Controlling. There are many activities in business where immediate or «real time» information is necessary so that the …14 can be controlled directly. These activities include ...15 control, quality control, and budgetary control.
Reporting. Many different kinds of …16 exist in business. They ...17 from weekly sales reports to financial reports at an Annual General Meeting. Every function within an organization is constantly ...18 and reported on.
Read the text once again and summarize it in 5-7 sentences.
Ex. 8. Give the English equivalents to the following word-combinations.
Неспособны выполнить задания, которые требуют не только индивидуальных усилий; групповая деятельность может быть направлена на более высокие, более сложные цели; все эти элементы, взятые вместе, рассматриваются как организация; организации были созданы для того, чтобы помочь индивиду достичь больше; цели должны отвечать потребностям, которые общество определило как важные; организации могут быть сгруппированы по типу деловой активности; партнерство создается по соглашению; владельцы корпораций называются акционерами; эффективная коммуникация – предпосылка успеха в бизнесе; информация помогает быть чувствительными к покупателям, служащим, изменениям на рынке; индивидуальные усилия; не достигают успеха; достичь цели; неспособные выполнить; относительно рано; первичный элемент; в своей первой попытке; отвечать потребностям; деятельность, которая поддерживает; сеть отношений; способствовать сотрудничеству; официальное признание; от своего имени; обладать властью; выполнять обязанности; официально признан; необходимость разделить работу; обозначается термином; процесс передачи обязательств; от выше стоящего к подчиненному; не может существовать и процветать; иерархическая организация; составляют основные компоненты; управленческий инструмент; разделение по функциям; которые сталкивались с необходимостью; большие скопления ресурсов.
Ex. 9. Translate the following sentences into English.
Организация - это группа людей, объединенных общей целью.
Бизнес – это производство, покупка и продажа товаров и услуг.
Группа людей, несущих юридическую ответственность за работу компании, называется совет директоров.
Когда компания выкупается государством и передается в государственный сектор, это называется национализацией.
Приватизация – это возвращение предприятий частному владельцу.
Цели компании должны отвечать требованиям общественности.
Как только цели определены, следующий шаг – это принятие решений о том, что нужно сделать, чтобы достичь этих целей.
Любая организация выполняет 2 вида деятельности: основную и вспомогательную.
Основной вид работы – это работа, непосредственно связанная с удовлетворением потребностей потребителей.
Вспомогательная работа – это работа, связанная с обеспечением и поддержанием основного вида деятельности.
Власть – это способность влиять.
Полномочия – это официально признанная власть.
Делегирование – это передача части полномочий другому лицу.
Структура – это иерархическая модель власти, полномочий, ответственности и подотчетности.
Структура компании, по своей сути, является управленческим инструментом, содействующим продвижению компании к своей цели.
Формальная организация (де юре)– это всего лишь полдела. Существенную роль в жизни любой организации играет неформальная организация, та, что существует де факто.
Основными формами организации бизнеса являются: индивидуальное предпринимательство, партнерство и корпорации.
Индивидуальный предприниматель несет ответственность за все долги предприятия.
Партнерство – это совладение предприятием двумя или более лицами.
Партнерство создается на основе соглашения, включающего такие условия как первоначальные инвестиции каждого из партнеров, их обязанности, разделения прибыли и убытков и др.
Владельцами корпораций являются акционеры.
В случае банкротства акционеры не несут ответственности своими личными капиталами – они теряют только то, что вложили в акции.
Акционеры не управляют компанией лично, они избирают совет директоров.
Совет директоров избирает президента и вице-президента компании.
Система – это единство взаимодействующих и взаимозависимых элементов, работающих как единое целое.
