State examination situations on Business English

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Situation 18

a) You are the Sales Manager of Philip Morris Kazakstan. You lead a team of sales representatives, which covers ten sales areas. Each sales representative is responsible for one of the areas. You are in the office of the Sales and Marketing Director. You discuss what sort of things motivates people to do their job well.

b) You are the Sales and Marketing Director at PM Kazakhstan. You are having a conversation with the Sales Manager, who leads the team of sales people responsible for ten sales areas. You want to know how things are going on in the team.

State examination situations on Business English Situation 19

a) You are the Chief Executive of a company. Your company must reduce its running costs by $ 50 000. Discuss with the Deputy Chief Executive how you are going to save money. You suggest cutting the staff-training budget by 10% and stopping all donations to charity.

b) You are the Deputy Chief Executive of a company. Your company must reduce its running costs by $ 50 000. You are discussing how to save the money with your boss. You don’t think cutting the staff training budget and stopping all donations to charity is the best way out. You think it is better to put off buying new production machinery and new computer equipment.

State examination situations on Business English

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Situation 20

a) You are the Chief Executive of a company. Discuss the performance of your company with the Deputy Chief Executive explaining rises and falls which the company had in different periods of its history (for example, seasonal sales trends, annual turnover, raw materials’ prices, number of employees, prices, etc.). You recommend actions to be undertaken by the company in future.

b) You are the Deputy Chief Executive. You think it is a good idea to use experience of the past years in the future activities of the company. Discuss the actions the Chief Executive recommends.

International Relations Department

Chair of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

Business English, 4^th year

Situation 1

Two managers of the production company are discussing how to develop high morale among the staff and motivate the employees to work harder to increase the productivity.

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International Relations Department

Chair of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

Business English, 4^th year

Situation 2

Human resources of International Company is having a job interview with a candidate for the position of marketing director.

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International Relations Department

Chair of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

Business English, 4^th year

Situation 3

Two managers are attending the annual conference. In the lounge they are discussing manager’s role in a company. One advocates the controlling approach of management as well as the other supports the motivating approach.

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International Relations Department

Chair of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

Business English, 4^th year

Situation 4

Absenteeism among the staff in the company is becoming a more frequent problem. Two managers are discussing the reasons and the possible way out of the situation.

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International Relations Department

Chair of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

Business English, 4^th year

Situation 5

Two colleagues are discussing the possible benefits from the open door policy in case it is implemented in the company.

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International Relations Department

Chair of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

Business English, 4^th year

Situation 6

Two managers are discussing the disadvantages of flexitime in the company.

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International Relations Department

Chair of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

Business English, 4^th year

Situation 7

Two managers are discussing the advantages of flexitime in the company.

International Relations Department

Chair of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

Business English, 4^th year

Situation 8

Two managers are discussing the possible problems that might arise in case the open door policy is implemented in the company.

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International Relations Department

Chair of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

Business English, 4^th year

Situation 9

One of the employees in a company is asking his department manager to cover his transportation expenses to another city as he is currently studying by correspondence. Although it is against company’s policy to cover employees’ expenses the manager might handle the problem in case his subordinate combines the academic holiday with a business trip.

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International Relations Department

Chair of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

Business English, 4^th year

Situation 10

Two manager of local and foreign construction companies are having a discussion whether to recruit local or foreign force. The local manager persuades his foreign colleague to employ local staff.

International Relations Department

Chair of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

Business English, 4^th year

Situation 11

Two managers of the production company are discussing how to develop high morale among the staff and motivate the employees to work harder to increase the productivity.

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International Relations Department

Chair of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

Business English, 4^th year

Situation 12

Human resources of International Company is having a job interview with a candidate for the position of marketing director.

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International Relations Department

Chair of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

Business English, 4^th year

Situation 13

Two managers are attending the annual conference. In the lounge they are discussing manager’s role in a company. One advocates the controlling approach of management as well as the other supports the motivating approach.

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International Relations Department

Chair of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

Business English, 4^th year

Situation 14

Absenteeism among the staff in the company is becoming a more frequent problem. Two managers are discussing the reasons and the possible way out of the situation.

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International Relations Department

Chair of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

Business English, 4^th year

Situation 15

Two colleagues are discussing the possible benefits from the open door policy in case it is implemented in the company.