Communicate innovations performance

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 854.

Subordinate colleague employee work-force set

Middle manager junior executive supervisor superior

Managing director board of directors senior executive staff

Match up these verbs and nouns to make common collocations.

Language focus

Comprehension / interpretation

1. According to the writer, what is the main duty of the head of any organization?

2. Why do some people disagree with Fayol's definition of the role of management?

3. What do a manager's functions depend on?

4. In what ways are the functions of a company director, for example, different from

those of a middle manager?

5. According to Peter Drucker, what basic operations do managers perform? Describe

each of them. What abilities should managers possess?

1. The text contains a number of common verb-noun partnerships (e.g.achieve objectives, deal with crises, and so on).

allocate decisions

communicate information

develop jobs

make objectives

measure people

motivate performance

perform resources

set strategies

supervise subordinates

2. Complete the following sentences using suitable words or phrases given below.

1. Managers have to ____ objectives and ____ them to their personnel.

2. The group of executives working below the top managers are generally called ____ .

3. Valerie is an important person in our company. She is a member of the ____.

4. Peter, a recent University graduate, has been with the firm for a year. He is at

present a ____ and is being trained for a managerial position.

5. Their ____ is expanding rapidly. They now have over 5,000 employees.

6. Managers have to supervise their subordinates, to measure and to improve their

____ .

7. At least 60% of our ____ have been with the company over ten years.

8. ____ in an organization generally have more fringe benefits than lower-level

managers.

9. We are a small group in the Research and Development Department. Fortunately, I

get on well with all my ____ .

10. Our telephone operators work under the direction of a ____ .

11. I work under Mr. Brown. He's my ____ .

12. Sheila and Tom work under my authority. I am their boss and they are my ____.

13. I am responsible for ____ training and development.

14. A ____ is a person of high rank in an organization, usually next in importance to

the Chairman.

15. Top managers are responsible for the ____ that will allow a company to adapt to a

changing world.