Key reading review 1 2

2 planning setting objectives develop strategies, plans and precise... tactics allocate resources of people and money organizing analyze an classify….. integrating communicate objectives

Unit 1: MANAGEMENT

VOCABULARY PREPARATION

Match up the following words & definitions

1 D

2 E

3 B

4 F

5 H

6 G

7 A

8 C

Common collocations

1 Allocate resources

2 Communicate information / objectives

3 Develop people / strategy

4 Make decisions

5 Measure performance

6 Motivate people

7 Perform jobs/ tasks

8 Set objectives/ goals

9 Achieve goals/ objectives/

10 Supervise subordinates

Fill in the blanks with a correct preposition

1 on

2 from

3 into

4 to / for

5 with

6 for

7 among

8 with

9 at

10 into

WHILE READING TASKS

1 The success or failure of companies or organizations depends on the quality of their managers

2

planning (setting objectives)

develop strategies, plans and precise

tactics allocate resources of people and money organizing

analyze an classify…

divide the work into…

select people to manage…

integrating

communicate objectives…

make people……form teams make decisions about pay & promotions work with people in other areas and functions

measuring (motivating and

communicating)

measure the performance / staff developing people develop subordinates & themselves

3

4 False

5 True

6 Because management does not involve only techniques Managers need to have good skills (= to be skillful) in order to put those techniques into practice

7 Excellent managers are quite rare because very few people have both good

techniques and good ideas

8 Peter Drucker

9 the organization

10

Aobjectives

B crisis

C attain

D subordinates

E modify

POST READING TASKS

VOCABULARY REVIEW

Complete the following sentences with these words

1resources

2 manageable

3 setting / communicate

4 supervise / performance

5 achieved

6 board of directors

7 innovations

Use the word combinations you have learned from the reading text to complete the sentences below.

1set objectives

2 allocate / resources

3 perform tasks

4 supervise / subordinates

5 measure / performance

6 deal with crises / make decisions

TASK 2

Write full sentences using the words given and adding any necessary words.

1 Management is important because the success or failure of companies often depends

on the quality of their managers

2 According to Drucker - “the father of Modern Management” a manager’s work can be divided into five tasks

3 The first task involves setting objectives, developing strategies, plans and precise tactics and allocating resources of people and money

4 The second task involves organizing Managers have to select people to perform the tasks

5 To do the third task, managers need the social skills of motivation and

communication

6 The fourth task requires managers to measure the performance of their staff to check whether the objectives are being achieved

7 The last task is to develop people – both the managers themselves and their

managers

8 When necessary, top managers have to consider the future and modify the objectives

9 They also have to manage a business’s relations with customers

10 Besides they also have to deal with any crisis that arises

UNIT 4: MANAGING ACROSS CULTURES

VOCABULARY PREPARATION

1 glocalization

2 logic

3 confrontation

4 compromise

5 intuition

6 connections

7 improvise

8 status

9 collectivist

10 lose face

11 interrupt

12 eye contact

FILL IN EACH GAP WITH A PREPOSITION

1 between / to

2 in

3 of

4 in

5 in

6 to

7 at

8 to

9 of

WHILE READING TASKS

ANSWER THE QUESTIONS

1 Because local cultural habits, beliefs and principles can easily affect the performance

of their business in each country

2 An individualist is someone who believes that personal goals and desires and

interests are more important than those of a group of people; a collectivist is someone who believes in the importance of a group of people rather than separate individuals

3 People in reactive cultures

4 Universalists

5 Particularists

CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING

1 L

2 M

3 L

4 M

5 L

6 M

7 M

8 L

9 L

10 M

11 R

12 R

13 R

14 L

15 R

16 R

WHAT DOES EACH OF THE UNDERLINED PARTS REFER TO?

1 managing a global multinational company

2 business people in “linear-active” cultures

WORDS & EXPRESSIONS WITH THE SAME MEANING

1 rational

2 take precedence

3 formulate

4 compromise

POST READING TASKS

VOCABULARY REVIEW

1 globalization

2 principles

3 belief

4 inventions

5 rational

6 represents

7 emotionally

8 compromise

9 confronted

10 precedence