Международный экзамен по английскому языку. Стратегия и тактика письма

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Firstly, high salary is the most important condition in job satisfaction. According to survey held in International Job Satisfaction Organization in 2005 more than 80% people become unmotivated if they work long hours for low pay. That’s why it is necessary to increase salary of the staff, encourage them different kinds of bonuses and provide fringe benefits.

Secondly, promotion opportunities have a significant impact on job satisfaction. Some people have the notion of a job for life. Nevertheless, I believe people seem to enjoy promotion opportunities and career possibilities a lot; in other words, they need a hierarchy because they feel they can move up through their life.

Above all, good working conditions motivate good work efficiency. For example, my friend who works in a company has to commute long distances. It pulls down the satisfac tion with work. However, there is a good job security and friendly working environment in this company. And as you know a colleague in need is a colleague indeed. Therefore, he prefers to commuting long distances and receives these fringe benefits and pleasant working atmosphere.

Thus, all these factors have a significant impact on job satisfaction and can ensure high morale and good work ef ficiency. So I would recommend any company to try to pro vide good wages, promotion opportunities, good working conditions and it will turn around your company.

Evgenia Astakhova, 21

Svistovka (Tula)

#11. Cause and effect Phenomenon

of Job Satisfaction.

To sow the wind and to rip the whirlwind. If you are boss you should know that all your actions and words in

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fluence your personal. I guess the best thing that gives you high living standards is a good salary with promotion op portunities and friendly working environment.

Firstly, it is easy to get promotion in a big company. Big company has a lot of problems and spheres of activ ity, where I can distinguish myself. If I’m just a worker I can become a manager and then even top manager. My older sister became a director in a year. Someone says that it is luck but I know that she is very talented.

Secondly, the more hard we work the more money we get. My mother worked in the state tax inspection. She was an ordinary employer at the beginning. But after four years she became a boss of her department. My mother works very hard and long so I believe that very good job must be accordingly well paid.

Thirdly, friendly working environment gives us an oppor tunity to reveal our talents and abilities. Investigators have got very interesting results: 60 per sent employees are ready to forgo an increase in salary for a good working conditions.

Options differ, but if you want to get more moneymake a good conditions for your employees and give them more opportunities to reveal themselves.

Novikova Ann

Cherepovets

Assignment: How much should companies be involved in the lives of their employees?

#1.

It is interesting to know that modern researches show that nowadays employees spend 70% of their life at work. That is why it is extraordinary essential to pay enough at tention to the environment of their workplace.

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The process of finding a right balance between strict discipline and too much flexibility at work is difficult, but if you find a perfect solution, you’ll have all chances to cre ate an excellent working atmosphere in your company.

Sometimes a company impacts private life of workers too much. For instance, employees have to take part in lots of after work activities, even in their weekends, or a company tries to influence your family private life. Such actions lead to the nervous atmosphere and, as a result, the efficiency decreases greatly.

Nevertheless, some companies don’t take care about their workers. There are no bonuses and bounties; more over, the working conditions are harmful. So, it is practi cally impossible to imagine that employees are ready to burn out at work.

Above all, is it impossible to find the right way? Do companies always have to be between two fires? I don’t think so.

It is always possible to find a balance, I’m sure. Creating an appropriate working atmosphere is a good

beginning for the future success of your business. There fore, your company should do it’s better to satisfy both the employees and the employers.

Natalia Parfenova

St Petersburg

#2. Aspects of the Relations

of the Companies and Their Employees

One my friend considers that money is not the main thing in your work. I completely agree with him because even a good salary is not the most essential part of your business life. There is something else that should be pro vided for a successful work. I think that good working con

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ditions and benefits are the main ingredients for any suc cessful job.

Firstly, I am sure that companies must worry about my health and rest, because all people are in need of their health care. Statistics show that 90% polled work in a com pany which takes care of their own employees, and 10% polled said that they should like to change the place of their work due to the absence of any perks.

Secondly, I think that working conditions are also very important for people. For example, my uncle works far from his home and it takes him two hours to get there. It’s very uncomfortable. However, my sister works in a very unfriendly team. It disturbs her, and she wants to change her job.

So, care and attention of the leaders towards their em ployees play a great role in a successful work.

I believe that working conditions and guarantees are the most important too. If companies don’t provide an employee oriented policy, they can’t recruit qualified and professional specialost.

Alexandra Latortseva, 19

St Petersburg

#3.

Do many companies interfere into their employee’s life? There are many pros and cons in such situation. But some of them are very serious.

To my mind, a company shouldn’t make utopia conditions for their workers but from another point view employers shouldn’t be involved completely into their employees’ life. In my opinion, companies should make their workers lives easier, giving health insurance, paying for their holiday and providing other fringe benefits.

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If every firm takes care of their workers, they will work hard and with pleasure. I am sure that a company, first of all, is a working place; that’s why people need good col leagues, friendly working environment and, of course, pro motion opportunities.

I think that good employers should take care of employees’ children, too, holding sport competitions for them and giving presents on holidays. It will be the best advertising of good company politics.

In conclusion, I’d like to say that every good company should be interested in the living conditions of their em ployees, but it shouldn’t be a “bee in a bonnet”.

Sergey Bogdanov,

St Petersburg

#4. To Interfere in the Employees’ Life?

“My office is my castle”, English people say. I think, companies ought to take care of their staff providing it, firstly, with necessary health insurance, secondly, filling their leisure hours. On top of everything, each company should organize different training courses for its employees to increase their qualification.

Healthy employees make the company prosperous. Accord ing to the survey held in National Health Organization in 2006, more than 70% working time is lost due to absenteeism aroused byhealth problems. So, forwardlooking employees try to provide their staff with highly qualified medical service.

Besides, leisure activities enhance high morale and en courage team building. For example, my boyfriend works in a big corporation where there is a problem with commu nication. The board of directors makes a decision to build a huge fitness center. These activities help to develop their communication skills and job efficiency.

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Not only training courses organized by a company could provide high working activity, but also knowledge and ex perience. You know a famous proverbs: “Knowledge is power” and “No gain without pain”.

Nadezhda Danilova, 20

Labytnangi (Salekhard)

#5. Corporate Politics

I think that a good company must be closely connected with the life of its employees. From my point of view an employer should provide all necessary facilities for good working conditions. For example, it would be a comfort able working place, good ecology, high salary, health se curity. To my mind, an excellent example of a prosperous company is a search engine company “Google”. Its motto is “just working, and we take care about your life troubles”. I absolutely agree with such position.

Firstly, a good employer should offer comfortable work ing conditions, lunch breaks, health insurance. For example, you can not work well if you think about food or your un comfortable chair. So, if the working place is convenient, the employee will burn out at work, will be creative.

Secondly, I think that it will be very reasonable to have a kindergarten nearby, or a child on site care. Employees, especially women, can leave there children for a whole working day there. It is very convenient; moreover, they can visit them during the breaks.

Thirdly, not only is the work important, but the rest is also necessary. Therefore, companies organize many corpo rate parties and games, for example, paint ball competitions, because it has become more and more popular. People receive the possibility to communicate with each other, and it helps to optimize their work.

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In conclusion, I would like to say that every employer should learn to combine all factors which I have mentioned above. And the employee will burn out at work, and he will be creative, open minded. Business will be a success.

Katya Sveshnikova, 19

St Petersburg

#6.

“My house is my castle”, English people say. I can para phrase it: “My company is my castle”. I think, companies ought to take care of their staff providing it, firstly, with necessary health insurance, filling their leisure hours; and, on top of everything, each company should organize dif ferent training courses for its employees to increase their qualification.

In the first place, healthy personnel make their com pany prosperous. According to the survey held in National Health Organization in 2006 more than 78% of working time is lost due to absenteeism caused by health problems. Thus forward looking employers try to provide their staff with highly qualified medical service.

Moreover, leisure activities enhance high morale and en courage team building. For example, my uncle works in a big corporation where there was a problem with face to face communication. Therefore, headquarters decided to make a large sport club where staff could spend time together. As a result, these activities create new approach to communica tion and increase working efficiency of the firm.

Only training courses organized by a company could pro vide high working activity. Francis Backon said: “Knowl edge is power”. That’s why it is essential for employees to have opportunity of training in team working. They will contribute this “power” to a company.

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Summing up, I could say that such factors as health in surance, leisure time activities and training courses for the staff have a significant impact on improving of the lives of the employees. So, I would recommend any company not to be cash strapped and invest money in personnel management.

Evgenia Astakhova, 21

Svistovka (Tula)

#7.

Imagine you are a staff manager of a daily newspaper, and you have to recruit a freelance — a writer, who sells stories to the newspaper. To what extend will you be in volved in his or her life before taking on?

Nowadays, there are difficulties in getting a job; em ployers select candidates properly; therefore, they need to know not everything, but only necessary facts of biogra phy. Firstly, of course, the staff manager should be polite. I have read somewhere that one employee had to forgo an increase in salary for concealing some information about his private life. I think, being polite is very important not to frighten away a valuable candidate.

Secondly, we have to think about what companies should know about the staff. According to the morale and ethics there are a few points: marital status, age, num ber of children, astrological sign and family background in addition to curriculum vitae. This information is not for everybody. Only staff manager and boss have an ac cess to it. It is “top secret”.

Thirdly, what companies should not know about theirs employees? I am sure, there is a long list: possessions, liv ing standards, cars, private life. For example, if your boss is working around the clock and late for the third night in a row, you should not ask him “What has happened?” or

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Assignment: In its traditional sense, risk means the threat of harm, injury or loss. Do you agree or disagree?

#1. Types of Risk

We can name a lot of risk situations in nowadays. It is the chance of harm? Injury or loss and it can be named threats. Risk may be harmful in different sides of our life. For example: in travel, in lifestyle, in business, in invest ment and more else.

Here some examples of risky situations. From my point of view it is better to start from global problems. Every day a lot of factories through out to the atmosphere many harmful things. In many parts of the world climate has already changed. If it continuous? Our planet with all pop ulation will be in danger. Many organizations observe dif ferent climate situations. We are expecting climate ca tastrophes not only on our planet but even from the space. It is really hard to predict and to avoid these threats.

Another sphere where risk can get us is business. The main kind of risk here is “the risk of doing nothing”. Such risk is strange as that may seem. Any companies enter the market with obsolete product without market research and of course fall into crisis situation. It is really important to avoid crisis and to predict it. “The risk of doing noth ing” is actual for all times and any company.

So, the main idea of such kind of risks is never doing nothing. The third important risk situations we can meet in lifestyle. Every day a lot of people all over the world die because they drink alcohol, smoke or use drugs. It is a very serious problem in nowadays. So, personal security is the third damage that troubles society. Some people don’t avoid metro, some don’t travel by plane. Some people even refuse to drink alcohol.