Dialogue 2.
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 451.
Dialogue 1.
Task 36. Choose any of the dialogues offered below. Reproduce them with a partner. Change the roles. Single out the major ideas and be ready to report them to the group.
DEVELOPING SPEAKING SKILLS
Task 35. Having read the material of the unit, how would you answer the questions:
· Why is it important and helpful to plan your life?
· What are the advantages of planning?
· What aspects highlight the character of planning?
· What are the characteristic features of different types of plans?
· What are the main steps of the planning process?
· What is the main managerial function of organising?
· What aspects of organising do you know?
| A: | I am interested in problems of organisational levels. Will you be so kind as to explain this issue to me? |
| B: | Certainly. The division of activities into departments and hierarchical organisation and the creation of multiple levels are not desirable in themselves. |
| A: | What is the reason? Are levels expensive? |
| B: | Yes, as they increase, more and more effort and money are devoted to managing because of the additional managers, the staff to assist them and the necessity of coordinating departmental activities, plus costs of facilities for the personnel. |
| A: | I think that departmental levels complicate communication, don't they? |
| B: | Of course, you are right. An enterprise with many levels has greater difficulty communicating its objectives, plans and policies downward through the organisation structure than does a firm in which the top manager communicates directly with employees. |
| A: | I suppose that numerous departments and levels complicate planning and controlling as well. A plan that may be definite and complete at the top level loses coordination and clarity as it is subdivided at lower levels. |
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