XIV. Answer the questions using the information of the text a.

1. What are the three main functions of a human resource manager?

2. What are employee relations managers responsible for?

3. What points do labor contracts include?

4. Who handles disputes between a company’s workforce and management?

5. What are the responsibilities of a staffing manager?

6. When does a staffing manager take on the duties of a recruiter?

7. What are the duties of a training and development manager?

8. Why do they work with managers of each department?

9. What are the functions of payroll managers?

10. What does the job of managing the pay structure of an organization involve?

11. What is the aim of such a job?

12. What does administering benefits program involve?

13. What do benefit managers oversee?

XV. Read the dialogue in which the stages in a company's recruitment procedure are discussed. As you read, number the stages below in the order they occur (the first two stages have already been numbered). Then act the dialogue out.

Recruitment procedure

A: Our personnel director has commented on how long our re­cruitment procedure for middle management takes. I'd like to spend a few minutes reviewing it and then perhaps we can look at ways it can be shortened. John, can you take us through the process as it stands?

B: Yes, certainly. Once a position becomes vacant, the post is initially advertised internally. If there are no applicants from within the country the post is then advertised in the national newspapers. Replies to this advertisement are assessed and the next step is to produce a short list of suitable appli­cants. As soon as an interview panel has been selected, these candidates are invited to an interview. In most cases, two or three applicants come through this stage successfully and are then asked to attend a final interview. In the meantime, refe­rences are requested for these candidates. On the basis of the final interview and these references one applicant is chosen. The job is then offered to this candidate and finally he is in­vited for an informal discussion day prior to taking up the job,

A: Thank you, John. Perhaps we could now go through the pro­cess step by step and see if we can shorten or cut any of these steps.

XVI. Talk on the topic: What are your career expectations and why?

Text B.

1. Match words or phrases in the left column to the definitions in the right one.

1. Background	a. work performed by a new employee
2.An incentive	b. a student specializing in some field
3.A new hire	c. to concentrate one’s attention exclusively on something
4.Corporate ladder	d. someone who has mastery in HR roles across HR functions
5. Generalist	e. a new employee
6.To zero in on	f. the hierarchical order of position, title, or rank,
7.College major	g. something that motivates a person to accomplish something.
8.Entry-level position	h. previous experience or training