Can I speak to you as soon as possible?

Language Review

C.Study the following verbal phrases and their synonymous expressions (or words). Make as many sentences as you can with the verbal phrases.

Acquiring More Skills

A. Match words and expressions (1–6) with their meanings or purposes (a–f).

B.Match words and expressions (1–8) with their meanings or purposes (a–h).

II. Positive Suggestions and Warnings

B.Change the following sentences using expressions that introduce positive suggestions and warnings.

1. Managers schedule time to organize their activities. - It's worth for managers schedule time organizing their activities.

2. Some people find it helpful to plan their day first thing in the morning. - It's worth for Some people find it helpful planning their day first thing in the morning.

3. If a large task is broken up into a series of small tasks, it becomes much more manageable. - It's bad if a large task is broken up into a series of small tasks.

4. Whether you are meeting a colleague at work or a friend over coffee, don't just arrange a time to meet; be thinking about a time to finish. - Whether you are meeting a colleague at work or a friend over coffee, don't just arrange a time to meet; It's worth thinking about a time to finish.

5. Assertiveness is essential to good time management. - It's good to have an Assertiveness for a good time management.

6. When a task arrives, deal with it straight away, or decide when to deal with it and put it aside till then. - When a task arrives, It's worth dealing with it straight away, or decide when to deal with it and put it aside till then.

7. Don't revisit a task without carrying it out. - It's a waste of time revisiting a task without carrying it out.

8. Deal with what is on your desk, once only. - It's important to deal with what is on your desk.

Exchanging Information

A.Read the anecdote and comment on the last statement.

Response. “First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire second-rate people.”

I completely agree with this statement. A famous and prosperous company, of course, will hire a perfect specialist and will pay lots of money. A small and unknown firm will hire appropriate worker, even if he is a good one. The firm can pay him enough money. First-rate people prefer cooperating with first-rate people. Also it connects with prestige. And Second-rate people work with second-rate workers.

B.Read the following anecdote and 1) describe the way of testing the secretary's independence of mind and express your opinion about it; 2) describe other ways of testing employees revealed in the text and express your opinion about them; 3) retell the anecdote in Indirect Speech.

1) The way of testing the secretary's independence of mind is very interesting. He asks the secretary about one dog in the snow. A secretary replies that he doesn't see this dog. And then repeated it again. The director wanted to check the presence of independence of mind to become an executive. He was satisfied of the answer. I agree with his point of view. I liked this manner very much!

2) The other ways of testing employees revealed in the text I don't like. In this case it was a bit rude. But I agree that, on the other hand, Patterson fired people at the drop of a hat. He never wanted to hear that something could not be done. It's right.

C.Read the following anecdote and 1) give its summary;
2) express your opinion about Sam Cherr's way of getting the best work out of the people he managed.

1) Sam Cherr, one of the three founders of Young & Rubicam, the advertising agency, had a simple way of getting the best work out of the people he managed. All marketing plans had to be put into writing, and some of these detailed reports often ran to 200 pages. And once he made one employee rewrite it several times. An employee rewrote it and only after that knew that Sam Cherr didn't see it at all!

2) I like the strategy of Sam Cherr. It helps him to get the best from his employees. Also it train confidence, a very necessary and important quality.

Developing Interpretation Skills

A.Render the text in English.

Management functions are relative isolated directions of managers's activity, which help him to implement a managing impact. There are cyclically repeating processes of receiving and processing of an administrative information, decision-making and its finishing to the performer in a basis of its realization. There are different functions of management: goal-setting, organization, stimulation, planning, account, control, regulation. Goal-setting is a definition of the purposes of activity of object of management.

The most important results formulated in rather general view, unlike the tasks being more concrete results, expressed often quantitatively, refer usually to the purposes. The purpose which never can't be reached but which it is possible to aspire to come nearer to, is called as an ideal.

The organization is a placement of elements of object of management, a definition of their functions, communications (material and information) among themselves, and also with objects of environment.

A stimulation is an encouragement and punishment of workers depending on results of their labor activity. Stimulation is carried out by various ways (methods) of management.

Planning is a definition of future desirable condition of object of management and those actions (actions), which is necessary for carrying out to pass from a present condition to the desirable. It is carried out in two stages: the desirable condition of object expressed in quantitative values of the main indicators of its activity at first is defined, then the actions which performance will provide achievement of these indicators are developed.

B.Translate into Russian

Менеджеры, которые прибегают к эффективным действиям (те, кто делает трудными – даже на вид невозможный – вещи, происходят) полагаются на комбинацию двух черт: центр и энергия.

Думайте о центре как о сконцентрированном внимании - способность к нолю в на цели и переживите задачу к завершению. Сосредоточенные менеджеры не находятся в реактивном способе, они принимают решение, что не сию минуту надо ответить на каждую проблему, которая прибывает их путь, или будете уведены в сторону от их целей отвлечениями как электронная почта, встречи, неудачи и непредвиденные требования. Поскольку у них есть ясное понимание того, чего они хотят достигнуть, они тщательно взвешивают свои мнения прежде, чем выбрать план действий. Кроме того, так как они передают только один или два ключевых проекта, они могут уделить свое полное внимание проектам, в которые они верят.

Думайте о второй особенности – энергии – как энергия, которая питается в интенсивном личном участии. Энергия - то, что заставляет менеджеров идти дополнительные мили, занимаясь тяжелыми рабочими нагрузками и выполнением работы в срок.

В то время как и центр и энергия - положительные черты, ни один не достаточен, чтобы произвести вид целеустремленной организационной потребности действия больше всего от их менеджеров. Центр без энергии впадает в вялое выполнение или приводит к выгоранию. Энергия без центра рассеивает в бесцельный бизнес или, в его самой разрушительной форме, серьезной из расточительных отказов.

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