TRANSLATION-1 POINT

Translate the following sentences from English into Russian

1. Pressures from foreign companies are causing many managers to reassess their approaches as they strive to be successful in a formidable competitive environment (sec. 1)

2. This definition recognizes that management is an ongoing activity, entails reaching important goals, and involves knowing how to perform the major functions of management. (sec. 3)

3. Leading is the management function that involves influencing others to engage in the work behaviours necessary to reach organizational goals. (sec. 4)

4. A nonprofit organization is an organization whose main purposes centre on issues other than making profits. (sec. 6)

5. A skill is the ability to engage a set of behaviours that are functionally related to one another and that lead to a desired performance level in a given area. (sec. 9)

SUMMARY-1 POINT

►Translate the phrases below into Russian and make them stick in your mind. Use as many of them as possible to summarize Theory 1:

1) accelerating global competition

2) to reassess one’s approach

3) to gain a competitive edge

4) to set goals

5) to reach goals

6) to perform functions

7) to encourage change and innovation

8) to carry out plans

9) to allocate and arrange human resources

10) to determine a task

11) to staff jobs with individuals

12) to be aimed at smth

13) to conform to smth

14) to form the basis of the managerial process

15) to contribute to smth

16) not-for-profit organizations/ nonprofit organizations

17) charitable organizations

18) work agenda

19) to attempt to accomplish

20) job demands

21) job constraints

22) job choices

23) to initiate a proposal

24) to act as a liaison

25) to share information

26) to handle disagreements

27) to negotiate with collaborators

28) to need a sound knowledge base

29) in pursuit of organizational goals

30) to be important ingredients in organizational performance

PUZZLE-2 POINT

Match the words on the left with their definitions on the right

1. Manage

a) management (n) 1) relating to the work of a manager

b) manager (n) 2) possible to control or deal with

c) to manage (v) 3) the people who control a company

d) managerial (adj) 4) a person who is employed to

control, organize, and direct

part or all of a business or organization

e) manageable (adj) 5) a woman who runs a shop or

restaurant

f) manageress (n) 6) to be in charge or in control

of an organization, a

department, a project, etc.

7) the control or

organization of people,

a business, a department of

a firm, a project, or

a process

Complete the following sentences with an appropriate term from the left column

1. The fall in profits was a result of bad ______________.

2. The company has taken on a new marketing ________________.

3. She started work as a sale assistant in a shoe shop but soon became the ______________________.

4. He decided to apply for a _________________ position.

5. He _________________ a team of 15 staff.

6. The hotel is now under new ______________________.

7. How well organizations achieve their goals depends on ___________________ performance - the manager's effectiveness and efficiency.

8. Employees work harder if they believe ______________ is concerned about their welfare.

9. As _________________, people carry out the functions of planning, organizing, staffing, leading and controlling.

2. Compete

a) competition 1) process of being competitive

b) compete 2) related to, based on, or decided

by competition

c) competitor 3) the rivalry among buyers and

among sellers in the purchase

and sale of resources and products

d) competitive 4) a person or company that offers

the same or better goods and

services as another and

therefore competes for the

same customers

e) competitiveness 5) succeed in doing better than

another person or company

6) the person or people competing

Complete the following sentences with an appropriate term from the left column

1. The__________________ is very fierce.

2. Producers in a_________ market must constantly look for new and attractive goods and services to win a larger share of the market.

3. ________________ in the book trade did their best to undercut each other's prices.

4. There was a lot of__ ____________for the job.

5. It's difficult______ _______ with low-priced imports.

6._________________ motivates producers to improve the quality and increase the variety of goods and services.

7. This firm is one of our biggest _________________.

8. It’s important to keep a _______________edge.

9. Stockbrokers_______________with one another for the public business. They try to make their services more attractive than the_ _________________.

10. ___________________ is the relative standing of one competitor against other competitors.

11. As a rule, the more _______________ the industry and the more homogeneous the product, the greater the

pressure to keep__________________ .

PUZZLE-3 POINT

Complete the text using these verbs:

analyse communicate contribute divide form

improve measure commercialise perform risk

select train understand use work out

You want me to explain what management is? Well, I guess I can manage that! Actually, management as we (1)…………………..it today is a fairly recent idea. Most economists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, for example, wrote about factors of production such as land, labour and capital, and about supply and demand, as if these were impersonal and objective economic forces which left no room for human action. An exception was Jean-Baptiste Say, who invented the term "entrepreneur", the person who sees opportunities to (2) ……………….resources in more productive ways.

Entrepreneurs are people who are alert to so-far undiscovered profit opportunities. They perceive opportunities to (3)…………….new technologies and products that will serve the market better than it is currently being served by their competitors. They are happy to (4)………………………………………………..their own or other people's capital. They are frequently unconventional, innovative people. But entrepreneurship isn't the same as management, and most managers aren't entrepreneurs.

So, what's management? Well, it's essentially a matter of organizing people. Managers, especially senior managers, have to set objectives for their organization, and then (5)………………………………………………how to achieve them. This is true of the managers of business enterprises, government departments, educational institutions, and sport teams, although for government services, universities and so on we usually talk about administrators and administration rather than managers and management. Managers (6)………………… the activities of the organization and the relations among them. They (7)……………………………………………….the work into distinct activities and then into individual jobs. They (8)………………people to manage these activities and perform the jobs. And they often need to make the people responsible for performing individual jobs (9)………………. effective teams.

Managers have to be good at communication and motivation. They need to (10) ................................................................. the organization's objectives to the people responsible for attaining them. They have to motivate their staff to work well, to be productive, and to (11)…………………….something to the organization. They make decisions about pay and promotion.

Managers also have to (12)................. the performance of their staff, and to ensure that the objectives and performance targets set for the whole organization and for individual employees are reached. Furthermore, they have to (13)………………………..... and develop their staff, so that their performance continues to (14)………………….

Some managers obviously (15)...................... these tasks better than others. Most achievements and failures in business are the achievements or failures of individual managers.

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