- •In fact, an organization is the unity, which operates successfully, if it is managed efficiently.
- •Text 2. Forms, types and styles of business organizations.
- •Types of Partnership:
- •Text 3. Organization structure
- •In business, the organization structure means the relationship between positions and people, who hold these positions; it shows who reports to whom.
- •Organization as the management object
- •Organization as the close system:
- •Organization as the open system
- •Text 4. Board of directors and ceo
- •3. Acquire sufficient resources for the organization’s operation
- •Major responsibilities of Board of Directors:
- •Typical Major functions of Chief Executive Officer of a Corporation
- •Answer the questions to the texts
- •Vocabulary to Unit 1
- •Unit 2. Corporate vision, mission, and image. Text 1. Company’s vision
- •Text 2. Company’s Mission
- •It is known that slogan represents words that sell.
- •Text 3. Objectives
- •Text 4. Strategic priorities
- •Strategy – mos - Tactics
- •Text 5. Spin of Success
- •Answer the questions to Unit 2
- •Vocabulary to Unit 2
- •1. Avoid V избегать, остерегаться, уклоняться. Syn: escape, evade.
- •2. Common purpose общая цель
- •3. Bridge n мост
- •Unit 3.Organization environment, resources and business activity Text 1. Types of environment
- •Text 2. Company resources and activities.
- •Production
- •Answer the questions to Unit 3
- •Text 1. Vital role of planning in company management
- •Text 2. Types of analyses used in planning activity.
- •Text 3. Typical Phases in Planning
- •1. Reference Overall Singular Purpose (“Mission”)
- •Text 5. Executives’ support in planning implementation
- •Answer the questions to Unit 4
- •Vocabulary to Unit 4
- •Unit 5. On Management and Managers. Text 1. What is management?
- •It is sufficient to say that the objectives represent what a company has to achieve and policy is how to go about achieving them.
- •Text 2 Strategic management versus operational management
- •Text 3. The managers’ job.
- •Text 4. Major functions of Managers.
- •Text 5. The role of a manager in company’s activity
- •Text 6. Delegating Authority
- •Answer the questions to Unit 5
- •Vocabulary to Unit 5
- •Unit 6. Leadership Text 1. General characteristic
- •Text 2. Leadership styles.
- •Text 3. Effective Leadership
- •Why are values important?
- •It all starts with leadership
- •Creating common understanding
- •Enabling and encouraging people to live by values
- •Most critical aspect – walking the talk
- •Answer the questions:
- •Unit 7. Business Culture and Business Ethic. Text 1. What is culture?
- •Building Trust across Cultural Boundaries.
- •Factors, which influence the organizational culture:
- •Text 3. Business ethics
- •Text 4. Business ethics and corporate culture nowadays.
- •Visible Manifestations of Culture
- •Invisible Manifestations of Culture
- •Questions to Unit 7
- •Vocabulary to Unit 7
- •Unit 8. Socio-psychological climate within and outside
- •Text 1. Ensuring socio-psychological climate in business.
- •Get a mentor or a coach
- •Learn to delegate
- •Recognize what’s important from what’s urgent
- •Recognize accomplishments
- •Text 3 .Dealing with Difficult Employees
- •How Can a Manager Deal with Difficult Employees
- •Text 4 . The 20 Bad Habits. Challenges in Interpersonal Behaviour.
- •Questions to Unit 8
- •Vocabulary to Unit 8
- •Unit 9. Managing Conflict Text 1. Why do conflicts arise in organization?
- •Text 2. Conflict Situations.
- •3. Differences in perceptions and values
- •Questions to Unit 9
- •Vocabulary to Unit 9
- •Unit 10. Cross-cultural Differences Text 1. Doing business across cultures. General ideas.
- •Text 2. Cross-cultural management.
- •Text 3. Culture clashes.
- •Text 4. Cross- Cultural Management that Makes a Difference
- •How should a company coming to a new culture cope with cultural issues?
- •Text 5. Cross-cultural management in Russia.
- •Text 6. Some Results of Poor Cross Cultural Awareness
- •Questions to Unit 10:
- •Vocabulary to Unit10
Questions to Unit 10:
1. What levels are there in the process of intercultural learning?
2. What a re the roots of cross-culture differences?
3. Are there any universal principles to deal with cross-cultural problems?
4. What is a crucial task of management in multinational environment?
5. How can you explain the concept of ‘glocalization’?
6. How do managerial principles differ in north-American and north-west European cultures on the one hand, and in Latin south-European and south- American cultures, on the other hand?
7. What is the difference between Protestant cultures and Latin and Asian countries?
8. Why is the American concept of pay-for-performance unpopular in Italy, and in Asia?
9. Why the idea of “matrix management” doesn’t work in France?
10. Why do ‘universalists’ disapprove of ‘particularists’?
11. What things can be of potential hazard when you are dealing with people of other cultures?
12. What can be a measure of your success when you are abroad? Why?
13. What you should do and shouldn’t do while you are on business abroad?
14. What was the reason for appearance of the concept of cross-cultural management?
15. In what situations do you become aware of your own culture? Why?
16. What does a “culture shock” mean? Give your examples?
17. What does cross-cultural management teach people?
18. How to cope with cultural issues when your company is coming into a new culture?
19. What does “walking around” style of management mean? Do you think it useful or not?
20. How do relationships between a manger and employees differ in Russia from those in western cultures?
22. What consequences can a poor understanding of cross- cultural differences lead to?
23. Why is the awareness of cross-cultural differences so important in present global economy?
24. Can you give some examples of misunderstandings in cross-cultural relations?
Vocabulary to Unit10
1. unawareness n неосторожность, опрометчивость
2. observation n высказывание, замечание, наблюдение
3. tolerance n терпимость, толерантность
4. distrust n недоверие, сомнение, подозрение
5. suspicion n подозрение; Syn.: doubt
6. defense mechanism защитный механизм
7. predisposition n предрасположение, склонность
8. close ranks сомкнуть ряды
9. collaborative adj. общий, объединенный, совместный
Syn.: combined
10. management by objectives управление по целям, целевое управление
11. lose face ударить лицом в грязь, потерять престиж, быть униженным
12. quantify v определять количество, измерять, мерить
13. ambiguity n неопределенность, неясность, двусмысленность
14.aggressive manager энергичный, предприимчивый менеджер
15. on the contrary наоборот
16. accord n одобрение, согласие, договоренность
17. assertive adj. 1)чрезмерно настойчивый, самоуверенный
2) позитивный, утвердительный
18. matrix management матричное руководство
19. precedence n превосходство, старшинство, ранг, приоритет
23. hazard n риск, опасность
24. offensive adj. обидный, оскорбительный
25.convention n собрание, соглашение, договоренность; правила поведения
26. empower v поручить, давать возможность; оказывать поддержку
27. obey orders подчиняться, повиноваться приказам
28. be condensed быть сжатым, кратким
29. go a bomb потерпеть провал, фиаско
30. equate v уравнивать, считать равным, приравнивать
31. be deprived of быть лишенным чего-либо
32. expatriate n эмигрант, экспатриант, переселенец (в другую страну)
33. get rid of smth избавиться от чего-либо
34. come up with smth сравняться с (чем-л.); предлагать (план, проект)
35. blunder n грубая ошибка, промах, просчет
36. oil rig буровая установка
37. berate v бранить, ругать, поносить (кого-л.)
38. mob n толпа, сборище, большая группа людей
39. outraged adj. оскорбленный, взбешенный
40. chase v гнаться, преследовать
41. sales pitch партия товара
42. be at a standstill бездействовать
43. cultural gaffes - ошибки, оплошности при межкультурном общении
Syn: blunder
44. innocuous adj. безобидный, безвредный
45. flatten v 1)сглаживать; 2) снижать активность, становиться вялым
46. connotation n подтекст, скрытый смысл