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Situation 1

Two economist in the company are discussing about management problem of company «I-Phone»

Student 1

You are the Personnel Manager for I-Phone. You want to create good conditions for the employees and to build up better employee-manager relationships. One of key policies is the Open Door program. However, your partner, the Senior Manager, disagrees with your opinion.

Student 2

You are the Senior Manager at I-Phone. You disagree with the idea of introducing an Open Door policy suggested by your colleague. You think that it will have some disadvantages. For example, employees would take a day off in order to appeal to a higher level management to solve their problems

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Situation 2

Two currently unemployed people are expressing their concerns on the problem of unemployment in the country. They are complaining of the tiring procedure for granting the unemployment status.

Student 1

Student 2

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Situation 3

Two employees are making some predictions relating labor market in the nearest future. For instance, one of them thinks that job interruptions of women will eventually disappear and moreover, men will be granted paternal leave instead of women. His partner is very reserved concerning such predictions. He thinks that the situation on the labor market is unlikely to change.

Student 1

Student 2

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Situation 4

A foreign employer is expressing his concern about an excessive number of cases when employees file different types of employee relations suits against companies. Among the most frequent types of lawsuits he mentions suits relating occupational health and safety hazards, unfair labor practices, sexual harassment, wage and hour violations. Our local employer has an opinion that employee relations suits are the products of bad management. He rejects the possibility of similar suits in our region giving his reasons.

Student 1

Student 2

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Situation 5

Two participants at a conference are discussing the report on Modern aspects of labor market development in Kazakhstan.

Student 1 does not accept the opinion that the major part of employment penetrates from state economic sector into private business sector.

Student 2 thinks that most of the population of Kazakhstan still occupies state institutions.

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Situation 6

Two economists in the annual meeting speak about competition in KZ and USA

Student 1 Points out that we must develop and improve perfect competition

Student 2 Points out that we must develop and improve imperfect competition

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Situation 7

Two managers in the round table are discussing «Is management art or science?»

Student 1 Thinks that Managers are inner born people

Student 2 Thinks that management is an art and science which requires very careful knowledge about the market

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Situation 8

In the meeting representatives of foreign companies and Kazakhstani government talking about the similarities and the differences in private and public economic sectors

Student 1 Representative of Kazakhstani Government talks about advantages of investing in Kazakstan

Student 2 The journalists have to question the participants about the similarities and the differences in private and public economic sectors (the structure of the sectors, their functions) in different countries

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Situation 9

Play a conference where the delegates from medium-sized enterprises discuss the difficulties they are facing today, and the measures to be undertaken to remove them.

Student 1 Talks about tax problems

Student 2 States that they have little problems but not too big

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Situation 10

Interview an economic summit participant why not everyone is happy about market economy when Kazakhstan is a country with a market potential. Try to find out why some people are opposed to a market economy.

Student 1 You are pessimist

Student 2 You are optimist

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Situation 11

Play a talk where the head of the economic committee tries to prove that in a market economy, the interacting decisions of competing buyers and sellers will determine a system of product and resource prices at any given point in time.

Student 1

Student 2

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Situation 12

Two representative of medium sized business talks about management system in Kazakstan

Student 1 States that we must use management system of developed countries such as USA and China

Student 2 States that we are very young country to use these management system we need only time

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Situation 13

Your tutor has asked you and your partner to discuss the following questions and give reasons. In your discussion try to prove your viewpoints.

Which technique will the firm choose according to the given resource prices shown below? Why? Will production entail profits or losses? Will the industry expand or contract? When is a new equilibrium output achieved

Student 1

Student 2

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Situation 14

After an economics class you try to prove to your partner that competition is always unfair and it brings out the best in product and the worst in people. Your partner’s opinion differs from yours.

Student 1 Thinks competition is always unfair

Student 2 Your partner’s opinion differs from yours.

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Situation 15

Play a master class where representatives of different airline companies try to solve the following problem:

The domestic airline industry in the US contains about 10 trunk airlines. Governmental agencies assign routes, and regulate fares and entry. The airlines individually do a lot of advertising; they also try to compete in non-price ways such as reliability of service, movies, baggage service, and so on, but the agencies can, to some extent, place limits on these types of frills. Would you classify the industry (or firms) as a monopoly, an oligopoly, a cartel, or monopolistic competition?

Student 1

Student 2

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Situation 16

One writer has stated: “people who don’t manage are either too young, too old, or found in institutions for the incompetent.” What is this writer trying to say?

Student 1 You agree with this statement

Student 2 you disagree with this statement

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Situation 17

Task 2. Brainstorming issues of the conference are focused on following questions: Have you ever managed anything- for example, as part of a job or in a social or civic organization? If so, did you perform the management functions of planning, organizing, and controlling without being aware of it? Discuss your managerial experience relating it to the functions of management. Ask your partner’s viewpoint.

Student 1

Student 2

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Situation 18

Discuss with your partner the reasons that make people migrate from one country to another. Does the concentration of migrants in urban areas generate social tension and increase crime rates. Suggest ways of eliminating these problems.

Student 1

Student 2

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Situation 19

Discuss with your partner who gains and who loses as a consequence of eliminating occupational segregation. Decide if there is a net gain or loss to society as a whole.

Student 1

Student 2

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Situation 20

Discuss with your partner why there has been an increasing use of third country nations in the foreign operations. Prove that compensation packages for expatriates are more complicated than those for domestic employees.

Student 1

Student 2

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Situation 21

Discuss with the partner the impacts immigrants have upon the tax revenues and government spending of the receiving country. Define their contribution to the country’s economy.

Student 1

Student 2

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Situation 22

Use a simple demand and supply model to determine the gains and losses associated with the migration of population from low-to high-income countries.

Student 1

Student 2

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Situation 23

Interview a migration officer who thinks that economic refugees go to other countries in hopes of better jobs and pay.

Student 1

Student 2

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Situation 24

Interview classical economists who assume that the labor factor of production is immobile. Try to find out whether this assumption is correct in the modern world.

Student 1

Student 2

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Situation 25

More and more firms recognize the need to use jobholder meetings and Peer Review Panels to deal with grievances compare these two methods of solving job related problems.

Student 1

Student 2

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Situation 26

If you were on the board of directors of a large corporation, would you recommend that day-care facilities be instituted? Prepare a list of three reasons for and three against such a proposal.

Student 1

Student 2

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Situation 27

Interview your partner about their career, education and training path over the last few have years. What have they been doing and what they achieved? What will they be doing in the near

future?

Student 1

Student 2

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Situation 28

Discuss with your partner whether it is important to have different types of financial intermediaries whose deposits are components of the nation’s money.

Student 1

Student 2

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Situation29

Discuss with your partner the nature of banking system and services provided by different kinds of banks. What is the influence of modern technologies on banking?

Student 1

Student 2

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Situation 30

Discuss with your partner the variety of deposit types and their features. What are the main deposit-taking institutions other than commercial banks?

Student 1

Student 2

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Situation 31

Discuss with your partner the following statement: “Whenever currency is deposited in a commercial bank, cash goes out of circulation and, as a result, the supply of money is reduced”.

Student 1

Student 2

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Situation 32

Discuss the situation when you want to increase your business and you need a loan from the bank..

Student 1 You are entrepreneur

Student 2 Your partner is a representative of the bank

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Situation 33

Two specialists in economic sphere are discussing different classification approaches to unemployment types and share their opinions on the most common type of unemployment in the region.

Student 1

Student 2

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Situation 34

Two market specialists are expressing their opinions on the wages differentials between men and women according to job types and discrimination.

Student 1 One of them touches upon the role of prejudice in wages differentials.

Student 2 Another person states that wages cannot depend on any factor regarding men or women.

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Situation 35

Two market specialists are expressing their opinions on the wages differentials between men and women according to human capital and degrees of specialization. They come to conclusion that wage differentials according to human capital will eventually disappear.

Student 1

Student 2

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Situation 36

A young specialist having completed the exchange program on economics abroad is sharing his idea on the theory of Equal Employment Opportunity..

Student 1

Student 2 His colleague does not think that the theoretical approach might be applicable to our country

State examination situations on Business English Situation 1

One of your workers does not get on well with his/her colleagues. You are planning to have a talk with him/her.

a) You are the Department Manager. Before meeting your worker you have looked through his/her CV and have talked with his/her colleagues.

b) You like your new job, but you find it difficult to make friends with new people. As you are a very shy person it always takes you some time to feel at home with a new team.

State examination situations on Business English

a) The owner of a small company is talking to the Personnel Manager. He wants to discuss whether John White, one of the junior executives, should or should not be appointed to a more senior post in the company. The owner of the company is not sure that John White is the right person.

b) You are the Personnel Manager and you are for promoting John White. Try to persuade the conversation partner.

Situation 3

Some workers from a manufacturing department are complaining about their working conditions.

The Senior Manager invites his/her subordinate to discuss the problem.

a) The Senior Manager disagrees with the complaints. He/she thinks that working conditions are much better compared with other companies.

b) His/her subordinate who knows the situation better has some proposals:

1. Make salary increase.

2. Bring some changes into the working hours.

3. Install new equipment, etc.

Situation 4

Your products are not sold well. The company Chairman is having a talk with the senior manager in the Advertising Department.

a) The company Chairman thinks that the advertising campaign hasn’t been successful this year. He wants to review the plan for next year.

b) The Senior Manager agrees that they should discuss the future plans together. He also believes that his department might have done better if they had been given more money for advertising.

State examination situations on Business English Situation 5

a) You are the Personnel Manager for IBM. You want to create good conditions for the employees and to build up better employee-manager relationships. One of key policies is the Open Door program. However, your partner, the Senior Manager, disagrees with your opinion.

b) You are the Senior Manager at IBM. You disagree with the idea of introducing an Open Door policy suggested by your colleague. You think that it will have some disadvantages. For example, employees would take a day off in order to appeal to a higher level management to solve their problems.

State examination situations on Business English Situation 6

a) You are a manager attending a scientific conference. In the lounge you start talking to another participant of the conference. Give brief details about yourself and the organization you work for.

b) You are a manager participating in the work of a conference. One of the participants speaks to you. Introduce yourself, speak about your company. Discuss with your partner how conference issues might be implemented in your respective organisations.