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company [ˈkʌm.pə.ni]
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organize [‘ɔːgənaɪz]
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conference [ˈkɒn.fər.əns]
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problem [ˈprɒb.ləm]
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co-operation [kəʊˌɒp.ərˈeɪ.ʃən]
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product [ˈprɒd.ʌkt]
10.
diet [daɪ.ət]
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professional [prəˈfeʃ.ən.əl]
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delegation [ˌdel.ɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən]
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risk [rɪsk]
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effect [ɪˈfekt]
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temperature [ˈtem.prə.tʃər]
13.
era [ˈɪə.rə]
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technique [tekˈniːk]
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focus [ˈfəʊ.kəs]
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ventilation [ˌven.tɪˈleɪ.ʃən]
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fact [fækt]
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vitamin [ˈvɪt.ə.mɪn]
Ex. 7. Answer the questions before reading the text. Read the text and check
if you are right.
1. What is a healthy work environment?
2. Why is it important to have a healthy work environment?
Healthy Work Environment
No one wants to hate coming into work. When workers spend time in
a positive work environment, it shapes their mindset about wellness in a variety
of ways.
If you’ve ever been in a work environment where it feels heavy, negative,
and unproductive, you know what it’s like to be in a mentally and physically
draining place. It’s not healthy in any way, so it’s very important that company
leadership and workers come together to maintain a good work culture and environment.
A healthy workplace is one where both employees and management work
together to promote healthy actions and behaviors to keep everyone safe and
well.
A non-toxic, healthy environment leads to an opportunity for open discussion, strong professional relationships, and increased productivity.
Quite a few factors go into what makes a healthy work environment. For
right now, the obvious one is an actual physical space that is safe and clean –
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well sanitized, socially-distanced workspaces, clean air filters, etc. – but it goes
beyond that, of course.
A healthy workplace is one where employees thrive in their work projects
and feel happy while also staying physically and mentally healthy. They’re productive and feel supported, which leads to reduced absenteeism, illness, conflict, and, ultimately, turnover.
Ex. 8. Read the text and answer the questions.
Creating a Positive Work Environment
Happy employees are good employees. Even small details can impact their
productivity and performance. Remember that, and you’ll become a leader of
the best-performing team ever. These ideas will help you succeed.
A healthy diet is scientifically proven to affect our physical condition, so
people should take care of nutrition. The problem is, most of us are lazy to eat
well despite the fact we understand the effect of healthy food. To help your employees diversify a diet, supply them with products that improve brain functions
(a cup of green tea), let them stay focused (coffee beans), and deliver vitamins
(fresh fruits).
Health depends on far more factors than nutrition only. Take care of employees health by organizing a proper workplace: temperature level, ventilation,
light, office furniture – they all influence physical condition, boost spirits, prevent problems with back and neck, and make your employees feel comfortable
about the place of work.
Team building enhances social relations between staff members, creating
the positive working environment between them. Collaboration and task delegation lead to better productivity and more tasks completed daily. Team spirit encourages goals achievements. Most common team-building techniques include
corporate events, office parties, online communication with colleagues, and collaborative tasks. Make sure your employees know each other, have no problems
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with co-operation, respect other teams’ members, and collaborate with everyone
efficiently.
Self-development is essential for our career growth. To stay competitive,
you need to work on improving your skills, as well as provide your employees
with opportunities to do the same: seminars, conferences, and courses are the
ways to grow professionally.
The digital era makes career development easy of access, as we can master
skills or get new knowledge online. All these things not just help you grow but
create a positive working environment in your office as well. Confidence in
yourself and your knowledge is significant for better motivation, productivity,
and attitude toward things you do
Try to support your employees for initiatives. Encourage them to take
risks, put the company’s needs first, and strive for better results at work. An initiative employee is a real catch for your business; as such people always help it
flourish. So, be generous with bonuses: raise, gifts, extra vacation days, and
days off are good ideas to motivate your employees to be proactive.
People are social beings, and that is why communication plays a significant
role for our comfort. Encouraging your employees to socialize, you will enhance their creativity and productivity at work. Create the environment that
would facilitate open collaboration, sharing ideas, complaints, advice, and
whatever coworkers want to discuss in a casual atmosphere. Make them feel
free to express thoughts and share impressions, which will foster the growth of
confidence and unity.
It would be a good thing if you organized a leisure area in the office, a
place where people could communicate to each other in spare time.
1. How can you create a proper workplace?
2. What team-building techniques do you know?
3. Why is it important to support your employees for initiatives?
4. Why does communication play a significant role for our comfort?
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Ex. 9. Say if the sentences are true or false according to the text. Correct
A
B
1)
leisure
a)
colleague
2)
to supply
b)
to aim
3)
to improve
c)
relaxation
4)
coworker
d)
target
5)
to strive
e)
to get better
6)
significant
f)
positive work environment
7)
skills
g)
important
8)
goal
h)
abilities
9)
achievement
i)
to provide
10)
to collaborate
j)
to flourish
11)
healthy work environment
k)
chance
12)
to thrive
l)
to cooperate
13)
opportunity
m)
right
14)
proper
n)
comfortable
15)
cozy
o)
success
them if they are false.
1. Happy employees are good employees.
2. Small details can impact productivity and performance.
3. A cup of green tea let employees stay focused.
4. Task delegation leads to better productivity and more tasks completed
daily.
5. Team spirit encourages goals achievements.
6. Corporate events and office parties are common team-building tech-
niques.
7. Seminars, conferences, and courses are the ways to grow professionally.
8. We can master skills or get new knowledge only online.
9. Confidence in yourself and your knowledge is significant only for better
productivity.
10. Initiative employees help your business flourish.
Ex. 10. Match the words from column A with their equivalents in column B.
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Ex. 11. Make word combinations.
1)
to express
a)
time
2)
to play
b)
a leisure area
3)
to feel
c)
atmosphere
4)
to organize
d)
a significant role
5)
in a casual
e)
new knowledge
6)
to get
f)
comfortable
7)
to master
g)
other teams’ members
8)
to respect
h)
skills
9)
to foster
i)
ideas and impressions
10)
to prevent
j)
the growth of confidence
11)
to share
k)
thoughts
12)
spare
l)
problems
Ex. 12. Complete the sentences using the following words and word combinations: team-building techniques; encourages; seminars and conferences;
skills; a proper workplace; members; initiative; strive; communication.
1. … plays a significant role for our comfort.
2. Try to support your employees for … .
3. … are the ways to grow professionally.
4. … for better results at work!
5. Most common … include corporate events, office parties, online com-
munication with colleagues, and collaborative tasks.
6. Team spirit … goals achievements.
7. Take care of employees’ health by organizing … .
8. Our employees respect other teams’ …
9. We can master … or get new knowledge online.
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Ex. 13. Read the text and say how you should organize your workplace to
enhance productivity.
Workplace Organization
To enhance productivity, pay attention to your workplace: a table, all-inone PC, comfortable chair, notebooks for drafts, and even a plant – everything
should be at hand as it influences your performance at work. In a perfect world,
your workplace should inspire you: photos, motivational quotes, funny pictures,
or inspiring thoughts from your mentors help a lot.
With workspace organization being time-consuming, you might need actionable tips and advice from experts. Dozens of books and hundreds of articles
on the topic are hard to handle, but this infographic combines key points to remember and take into consideration if you decide to re-design working environments for better.
Ex. 14. Read the text and say how a day outside the office can influence
employees.
A Day Outside The Office
Changing a working environment for a day or two can boost inspiration
and motivation. Why do not give your employees a chance to spend a day outside the office and choose an alternative workspace for that time?
It goes to make people happier, build trust, and enhance team building.
Working a day from home, cafe, or co-working space (they name it!) can influence efficiency and productivity beyond the call of duty.
Ex. 15. Give your own ideas for making friendly working environment.
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Ex. 16. Match the speakers to make 3 dialogues, then learn the dialogues
by heart and tell them in pairs.
1. Mike: What about your job? Do you enjoy your working in the com-
pany?
2. Sue: What is the best way for a person to grow professionally?
3. Steve: …, please put the papers back at the proper place. You shouldn’t
feel embarrassed about making a mistake. Well, they say you learn by your
mistakes.
A. John: Oh, yeah! I am still pleased with it despite all the difficulties I’ve
had. I feel happy to work with a high professional team and have a lot of opportunities for self-development and career growth.
B. Helen: Thank you very much. Your support is very important to me.
C. Ann: I think you need to work on improving your skills. You can partic-
ipate in seminars, conferences, and courses to grow professionally.
Ex. 17. Read the text and give five reasons why workplace dress code is
important.
Proper Dress Code is Important
The way you dress shows your interests, status, attitude, and personality
and communicates a lot of non-verbal clues about you to others. Society expects you to conform to a dress code whether it is at home, office, social function, picnics, parties, beaches, school, college or academic institutions. What
may be acceptable in one country may not be so in another. Culture, tradition,
and socio-economic factors have an influence on the way you dress.
Depending on which industry your company operates in, having an appropriate dress code has an important bearing on your firm’s brand image, productivity, and employee morale.
Here are five reasons why workplace dress code is important.
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Firstly, it helps you with corporate identity.
Just as your brand gets a good visibility through appropriate colors, shades,
and fonts used, the way your employees dress help in creating a corporate identity for your firm which helps your stakeholders recognize you easily. In some
companies, all employees including the CEO follow the same dress code and
that helps in creating a positive image for the company.
Secondly, it keeps employee distractions away.
If employees wear different styles of clothes – some will be wearing casuals, some formals, and others may wear blazers or suits. In such a scenario,
those wearing colorful casuals may attract glances or cause a distraction to others. Moreover, customers who come to the office will also not feel any uniformity about the company’s operations. Clothing that reveals too much of
cleavage, back, chest, arms, and legs is considered to be inappropriate and if
a company follows a uniform, such issues can be taken care of.
Thirdly, dress code creates a healthy work culture.
Having a dress code for different categories of employees can create
a healthy work culture in the office. For example, the administrative staff may
be having a particular color combination for their work dress, while those in
customer service or marketing may have a different style. This helps in team
building among departments and also helps customers identify the functionalities related to each employee better. Those adhering to a dress code report positive outcome on productivity and team building.
Then, it displays professionalism.
Adhering to a dress code at office enables the company and its employees
to give the impression that they are professional in their work. Managers may
have to wear suits, ad full-sleeve shirts, and black shoes, while creative people
may be allowed to wear a slack shirt. On weekends or extra working hours,
some companies allow employees to wear T-shirts and bermudas. That helps
prevent monotony and it gives creative freedom to employees to dress in a way
they like for a day in a week.
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Professionalism is also valued by shareholders, the media, and investment
analysts.
The fifth reason making dress code so important is undesirable perfume
and makeup.
Dress code is not related to dressing alone but the use of perfumes, deodorants makeup, and beauty enhancements. Use of beauty enhancements may be
attractive at social functions and picnics but not in an office where it can be offensive to some. It can also convey a poor image of your company to your customers and stakeholders.
Having a dress code with or without uniform can help companies to make
employees happy and focus on their work. It improves productivity and helps
develop a healthy work culture in your organization. Many successful companies have judiciously used dress code for their various categories of employees
with a positive impact on employee performance and bottom line. Conforming
to the company’s dress code helps employees feel confident and perform better.
It also reduces the costs associated with buying and wearing dresses to work.
Ex. 18. Write your own compositions to the topic “Friendly Working Envi-
ronment”.
Grammar Point
THE INFINITIVE COSTRUCTIONS
Конструкция сложное дополнение c инфинитивом (Complex Object)
существительное (общ. падеж) / местоимение (обьект. падеж) + инфи-
нитив.
На русский язык конструкцию, как правило, переводят придаточным
предложением.
e.g. We expect modern technologies to give new possibilities.
Мы ожидаем, что современные технологии дадут новые возможности.
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Ex. 19. Translate the sentences paying attention to the Complex Object.
1. We know coffee beans let us stay focused.
2. We know creating a positive working environment to be not a recent in-
vention.
3. We would like the examples of positive working environment to be eve-
rywhere.
4. We heard big companies to have designed offices in a way to make
them a dream of every employee.
5. We believe creating a positive working environment to be high on the
list of every entrepreneur.
6. They allow the employees to dress in the way they like.
7. The company wants its employees to work better and with pleasure.
8. We know the physical environment to impacts employees’ well-being.
9. The company makes its employees feel comfortable about the place of
work.
10. We expect the healthy environment to increase productivity.
Конструкция сложное подлежащее c инфинитивом (Complex Subject)
существительное (общ. падеж) / местоимение (им. падеж) + (глагол) +
инфинитив.
На русский язык перевод таких предложений начинают со сказуемо-
го, а саму конструкцию переводят придаточным предложением.
e.g. Psychological techniques are known to be widely practiced by mod-
ern business.
Известно, что психологические приемы широко используются в со-
временном бизнесе.
Ex. 20. Translate the sentences paying attention to the Complex Subject.
1. A healthy environment is believed to lead strong professional relation-
ships and increased productivity.
2. These factors are considered to make a healthy work environment.
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