- •What is an organization?
- •What is an Organization?
- •4. Answer the questions:
- •Vocabulary
- •5. Match the following words with their definitions.
- •6. Complete the sentences with the words from the box.
- •7. Complete the sentences:
- •Organizational structure
- •1. Every company has its organizational or company structure. Match the titles of the jobs and departments with their Russian equivalents.
- •2. Read the information to learn about organizational structure of Forever Young Ltd.
- •Vocabulary
- •3. This is the list of new appointments at Forever Young Ltd.
- •Is responsible for
- •8. Someone is giving a visitor a tour of a company. Read the text about the nine departments and underline the names of all the departments. Parts of a Company
- •Vocabulary
- •9. Match the names of the departments (1-9) with the phrases (a-I) to make a short description of each department.
- •Organizational culture
- •1. Match the expressions with their Russian equivalents:
- •3. Read the text and compare your answers from Exercise 1 with the information and the definition given in the text. Organizational Culture
- •4. Answer the questions:
- •5. Determine if the following sentences are true or false. Correct the false ones.
- •Vocabulary
- •6. Complete the sentences with the words in the box.
- •Meetings
- •1. Match the expressions from the text with their Russian equivalents:
- •2. Read the text to learn about the role of meetings in the job of a manager. Meetings
- •3. Answer these questions:
- •4. Translate the following sentences into English to summarise the text.
- •Vocabulary
- •Vocabulary
- •2. Match the expressions from the text with their Russian equivalents:
- •5. Complete the sentences with the words and phrases from the box.
- •3. Translate the questions into English and discuss them with your partner using information from the text.
- •Negotiations
- •1.Read this introduction to negotiating . Negotiating
- •Vocabulary
- •4. Underline the words in the text that mean:
- •5. Look at these stages in a negotiation. Number them in the order that seems most logical to you.
What is an organization?
Match the words and expressions with their Russian equivalents:
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Reading
Read the text to learn more about the places where all managers work.
What is an Organization?
Now let's talk about the immediate world in which you will operate as a manager. Organizations are the setting for all managers, and managers don't exist outside of them. The word itself is derived from the Greek word organon and it means a compartment for a particular job. An organization is any structured group of people working together to achieve certain goals that individuals could not reach alone. Although alike in their need to achieve specific goals, organizations differ with respect to what those goals are. A goal at American Airlines is to improve its market share relative to that of other major airlines, such as Delta, USAir, and JAL, by providing extraordinary customer service. At Southwest Airlines, a goal is to offer on-time service at the lowest prevailing price to increase its market share. The goal at Polaroid is to create innovative instant cameras, whereas at Minolta the goal is to produce high-quality lenses for cameras and other optical devices. Organizations differ in many other ways, too. Some are large and others small; some provide services and others products. Some organizations, such as the armed forces, spend millions of dollars on recruiting members and develop methods to make sure that they abide by formal rules. Others, such as the local MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Drivers), spend little money to attract members and impose few controls on their behavior.
Organizations have existed throughout history, so why are they, their goals, and their managers so important today? The reason is that during the past fifty years, all developed nations have become societies of organizations. Each of you could write your autobiography as a series of experiences with organizations, both large and small: hospitals, schools, sports teams, governments, banks, stores, clubs, and community groups. Some have been well managed, but others have not.
There are a variety of legal types of organizations, including: corporations, governments, non-governmental organizations, international organizations, armed forces, charities, non-for-profit corporations, partnerships, cooperatives, and universities. A hybrid organization is a body that operates in both the public sector and the private sector, simultaneously fulfilling public duties and developing commercial market activities. As a result the hybrid organization becomes a mixture of a government and a corporate organization.
In the social sciences, organizations are the object of analysis for a number of disciplines, such as sociology, economics, political science, psychology, management, and organizational communication. The broader analysis of organizations is commonly referred to as organizational structure, organizational studies, organizational behavior, or organization analysis.
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