- •A. Leadership roles
- •B. Leadership and Management Styles
- •C. Situational Leadership
- •5. Look at the words in bold in your text. Can you guess and explain the meaning of these words?
- •Pair work. Read text a or b. Decide on the best title for your text. Underline the key sentences, which can help you to summarise the text.
- •Summarise your text to your partner. Then discuss together:
- •Look at the words in bold. Could you guess their meaning? Why?
- •What Employees Need From Leaders
- •Overall discussion.
- •Skim the text to find the general idea how cultural diversity is defined, measured and how it affects management.
- •2. Which of the statements are true about the article? Correct the false ones.
- •6. Complete the sentences .
- •7 . Match the words to make word partnerships. Explain their meaning.
- •8. Talk about how to make the most of cultural diversity within an organization
- •Divide the text into logical parts and find appropriate headings for them.
- •2. Which of the statements are true about the article? Correct the false ones.
- •3. Do you agree or disagree with the following statements :
- •4. Match words and phrases from the two columns to make typical collocations.
- •5. Choose the best collocation/ expression from Ex.3 to complete the sentences
- •6. Match the words to make word partnerships. Explain their meaning.
- •7. Discuss the role of organizational culture in the company operation
- •2. Which of the statements are true about the article? Correct the false ones.
- •3. Think of word partnerships starting with global which match these definitions.
- •4. Choose the best word or phrase to complete the sentences
- •5. Complete the idioms in the sentences below.
- •6. Match the words to make word partnerships (from the article)
- •What should the management do to adapt the company culture to changes in the business world? Brainstorm the ideas.
- •Unit 3 Organizations and operations Text 1
- •Types of ngOs
- •Range of ngo Activities
- •Vocabulary tasks:
- •2. Complete the sentence
- •Vocabulary tasks
- •Speaking tasks
- •Eastman Kodak files for bankruptcy protection
- •Vocabulary tasks
- •Reading tasks
- •Speaking tasks
- •Unit discussion tasks
- •Jurassic business park
- •1. Make an outline of the text
- •The Growing Incongruence between Economic Reality and Political Reality
- •2. Find the sentences in the text and fill in the gaps
- •3. Think of the title to each passage from the text.
- •4. Do you thoroughly approve of all the aspects about strategy and business environment mentioned in the text?
- •Find topic sentences in each paragraph. Give grounds to your choice
- •2. Fill in the gaps with the words/word combinations instead of their definitions given in brackets
- •3. Read the article again and complete the following summary in your own words
- •4. Discussion
- •1. Make up a summary of the text
- •2. Fill in the gaps with the words/word combinations instead of their definitions given in brackets
- •3. Choose the right answer
- •4. Do you share all points of Jack Welch’s strategy?
- •1. Make an outline of the text
- •2. Fill in the gaps with the words/word combinations instead of their definitions
- •3. Arrange the sentences in the order they are given in the text
- •4. Make up a dialogue.
- •5. Is corporate strategy an essential part of a company’s success? Can you think of any kind of a company which can be run without corporate strategy successfully?
2. Fill in the gaps with the words/word combinations instead of their definitions given in brackets
1. While focusing on strengths and _______(changing attention) to services, GE under Welch embraced globalization.
2. The corporate winners would only be those who are the “leanest”, the “lowest-cost
worldwide producers of quality goods and services or those who have a clear technological
_______something that gives you an advantage), a clear advantage in a market niche.
3. He _______(take control of something) a company in 1981 that had 350 different businesses in its _______(the combination of shares or other investments that a particular person or company has) clustered in 43 Strategic Business Units.
4. He drew three circles representing services, high technology and _______the main business or activities of a company or organization), and placed the names of 15 businesses inside the circles.
5. Those businesses that did not perform or could not be improved to meet the goal would be _______(sell something, especially a business or a part of a business).
6. He pledged to continue to operate or to acquire (obtain something by buying it)only those businesses that would be number one or number two in their market.
7. He continued: “If you have a game that’s _______(something/somebody can be easily
harmed, hurt, attacked or criticized), somebody can move fast, get you.
8. Operating in more than 100 countries, the company has about 45 percent of its 293,000
employees outside the United States and earns approximately the same share of _______(money
that a business or organization receives over a period of time, especially from selling goods or
services ) outside the country.
3. Choose the right answer
Jack Welch, the legendary chairman and CEO of General Electric, did not spell out his strategy clearly with his “number one, number two” concept. TRUE/FALSE
He pledged to continue to operate or to acquire only those businesses that would be number one or number two in their market. TRUE/FALSE
He took over a company in 1981 that had 35 different business in its portfolio clustered in 10 Strategic Business Units. TRUE/FALSE
Those businesses that did not perform or could not be improved to meet the goal would be divested. TRUE/FALSE
The corporate winners would only be those who are the “leanest”, the “lowest-cost” worldwide producers of quality goods and services or those who have a clear technological edge, a clear advantage in a market niche. TRUE/FALSE
Welch put forward a “sell” policy. TRUE/FALSE
Jack Welch stated “If you have a game that’s vulnerable, somebody can move fast, get you. And you don’t have a checkmate play or another move. You’ve got to get out of that game”. TRUE/FALSE
In addition to the ‘number one, number two’ policy, Jack Welch reoriented the company toward products. TRUE/FALSE
When Jack Welch began managing GE, the company was composed of 75 percent services and 15 percent products. TRUE/FALSE
While focusing on strengths and shifting to products GE under Welch embraced globalization. TRUE/FALSE