III. Read the text and translate it into Russian.

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Reading

UNIT 6 WHAT MAKES A GOOD MANAGER?

I. Practise the pronunciation of the following words:

Outward, competence, share, quality, superior, empathy, enormous, morale, cheerful.

II. Read and translate the following international words:

Title, symbol, empathy, authority, position, emotion, emotion, reaction, co-operation, optimism, morale, sitiation.

While reading the text for the first time find answers to the following questions:

I. What is the general subject of the text?

II. Who suggested that most managers share some qualities?

III. How many characteristics do successful managers have?

To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office and other outward symbols of a high order. To a great extent, effective managers are made, not born. That is, management skills can be and are learnt by people of all backgrounds. However, J. Sterling Levington suggested that suuccessful managers tend to share the following three qualities:

1. The need to manage. Only people who want to affect the performance of others and get satisfaction from doing this are likely to become effective managers.
2. The need for power. Good managers have a healthy need to influence others. To do this, they rely on their superior knowledge and skills, rather than the authority of their position.
3. The capicity for empathy. Effective managers are also able to understand and cope with the often unexpressed emotional reactions of other in the organisation in order to win their cooperation.

At the most general level, successful managers tend to have four characteristics:

1. They take enormous pleasure and pride in the growth of their people

2. They are basically cheerful optimists - someone has to keep up morale when obstacles occurs.

3. They don't promise more than they can deliver.

4. When they move on from a job; they always leave the situation a little better than it was when they arrived.

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