Summarize the information of the Unit to be ready to speak on the topic “Organization”. The first step to be done is to write the plan of your future report.
15. Choose any question (problem, topic) relating to Organization and make a 7-10 minute report in class. Refer to different additional sources to make your report instructive, interesting and informative.
UNIT 3
MANAGEMENT
If the leader is good, the followers will be good.
Your vocabulary
Management
– the control and organizing of a business or other organization;
– those stuff within the firm who exert control over its activities on behalf of owners.
Top management
includes the chief executive of an organization, his or her deputy or deputies, the board of directors and the managers in charge of the divisions or departments of the organization.
Middle management
consists of the managers to whom top management delegates the day-to-day running of the organization.
Managing director
– company director responsible for the day-to-day running of a company. Second in the hierarchy only to the chairman, if there is one; the managing director is the company’s chief executive.
Manager
– a person controlling or administrating a business or part of a business.
Ex. 1. Do you know the meaning of the following derivatives? Show it with the help of your own sentences.
to manage; manageable; management; manager; manageress; managerial.
Translate the following sentences. Pay attention to the words in italics.
1. The reserved the right to make managerial decision.
2. What you need is advice from your bank manager.
3. I wish you could manage the time to come and to talk to us.
4. Private banks are being nationalized, and are to be managed with workers’ participation.
5. They are part of my management team.
6. The baby can be greatly influenced by the parents’ management.
7. She has been working as the manageress of a bookshop.
8. It is perfectly manageable task to tackle systematically.
Ex. 2. Write down a synonym for each of the words on the left. Choose the one on the right. In what do they differ?
Ex. 3. The following words can be classified into 5 groups. What are they? Show the difference in their meaning with the help of your own sentences.
Choice, have, solve, dilemma, own, profit, posses, variant, cope with, to process, option, tackle, problem, handle, return, predicament, gain, alternative.
Ex. 4.Match the definitions with the words given below.
fee, executive, insure, skill, capacity, profile, applicant, charisma, ensure, guideline, superior.
1. Ability to do something well.
2. Short biographical or character sketch.
3. Payment made for professional advice or services.
4. Person or body with managerial or administrative responsibility.
5. Make certain.
6. Secure compensation in the event of loss or damage by advance regular payments.
7. In a higher position; of higher rank.
8. Principle directing action.
9. Power to certain, receive, experience, or produce.
10. The ability to attract, influence, and inspire people by your personal qualities.
11. Someone who formally asks to be given something, such as a job or a place at a college or university.
Ex. 5. Give the Russian equivalents to the following.
Involved in management; production oriented; impose regulations, ever-more-complex environment; encompasses both science and art; business executives; code of conduct; develop the body of knowledge; with respect to the second criterion; the issue is much less clear-out; is consistent with their interest; self-interest or concern for others; decision-making machinery; cross-cultural skills; consulting fee; character attributes; compare against the places set earlier; authority.
Ex. 6. Translate the following text into Russian in written form.
People working for a company are referred as its workforce, employees, staff, or personnel and are on its payroll.
In some context, especially more conservative ones, employees and workforce refer to those working on the shopfloor of a factory actually making things. Similarly, staff is sometimes used to refer only to managers and office-based workers. This traditional division is also found in the expressions white-collar and blue-collar.
Another traditional division is that between management and labor.
Personnel departments are usually involved in finding new staff and recruiting them, hiring them, or taking them on, in a process of recruitment. Someone recruited is a recruit, or in American English only, a hire.
They are also involved when people are made to leave the organization, or fired. These responsibilities are referred to, relatively informally, as hiring and firing. If you leave the job voluntarily, you quit.
Middle-managers are now most often mentioned in the context of re-engineering, delaying, downsizing, or rightsizing: all these expressions describe the recent trend for companies to reduce the numbers of people they employ, often by getting rid of layers of managers from the middle of hierarchy.
An organization that has undergone this process is lean and its hierarchy is flat.
Read the text once again and in turn explain, in your own words, the meaning of the following terms:
1. workforce, employee, staff, personnel, a recruit, a hire, layer, labour.
2. white-collar, blue-collar.
3. to recruit, to employ, to hire.
4. to fire, to quit, to get rid of.
Do you know any other synonyms to the words given above?
