Vocabulary notes
Tight planning – tense, stiff projection.
Alert to something – vigilant, watchful.
Resemble - remind, compare.
Flexible - supple, pliant, adaptable.
Oversee - supervise, superintend.
Overall responsibility – universal, general obligation.
Implement – perform, carry into effect, fulfill.
Misleading – deceitful, illusive, deceptive.
Vary – differ, modify, diversify.
Substantial – strong, firm, sturdy, essential, important.
Elicit information – extract.
Convey decisions - deliver, supply.
Conduit – channel, transmission medium.
Involve – entail, draw in.
Alongside – nearby, at.
Motivate – give reasons, prompt.
Advantage – benefit.
Supervisory manager – a manager that controls the activity.
Relevant – essential, important, significant.
Regardless of – in spite of, despite, notwithstanding.
Transferable – which can be delivered, passed.
Garment business – clothing.
To interact – interplay, cooperate.
Smoothly – calmly, evenly.
To foster – stimulate, induce.
To attune – to make harmonious, adapt.
Rulebook – personnel arrangement.
To camouflage – to hide, conceal, disguise.
Biased – tendentious.
At will - at somebody's wish, desire.
Exercises
1. Make up logical pairs
To coordinate skills
To transmit employees
To supervise goals
To employ information
To implement with staff
To interact a business
To oversee tasks
To complete activities
To put across a message
To run work
2. Give opposites to the words given below
Drawback, discourage, unimportant, to be similar, relaxed, unprepared, truthful, awkwardly, fixed, reveal.
3. Make up and practise short situations using the following word combinations:
Aggressive competition, innovative ideas, wave of new theories, new methods for solving problems, to set everything in motion, to meet an objective, to achieve a goal, to oversee the activities of other employees, to implement the broad goals set by…, to coordinate the work, to employ certain skills, analyze information, economic climate, he or she is able to perform the mechanics of a particular job, successful communication is a two-way street, the message must be suitable for its audience, it must be readable, it must be objective.
Questions
Why does management play crucial role in any organization?
To what questions must managers know the answers?
What are the responsibilities of the managerial staff on each of three management levels?
Does management hierarchy differ greatly from one organization to the next?
What three categories of skills are employed by managers?
What level does brand manager belong to? What are his/her duties?
What do you understand under the notion “administrative skills”?
How do you understand such sentence from the text “Successful communication is a two-way street”?
What forms of written communication do you know?
What should be taken into account in order to communicate effectively on paper?
5. Make reports in two groups on the management hierarchy and managerial skills using the figures above.
6. Make a complete presentation based on the text "The Managerial Role" using the work of an interpreter.
Put all possible questions to the following sentence from the text:
"The last few years have brought a wave of new theories about management, plus a number of new methods for solving practical management problems".
8. Find in the text all sentences with modal verbs