- •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 I brackets
1. Corporate strategy is the blend of strategic goals that support the_______ (an aim that is very important to a person or organization) and vision of an organization.
2. Strategy_______ (the organization of activities or systems so that they do not match or fit well together) is subtle and sometimes difficult to spot.
3. While missed _______(a calculation of the way something will change and develop in the future, especially of how fast it will grow or become smaller) can be traced back to an array of different issues, often the root cause is strategic misalignment
4. The _______(the amount of money that a business makes or loses) impact of strategy misalignment inevitably falls to the_______( the same word combination).
5. If misaligned, you can imagine the types of non-strategic efforts that can occur at a_______ (the ordinary people in a community, country, society, or organization rather than its leaders) level in the organization as managers and workers attempt to find their own direction.
6. As a result, _______(the level of confidence and positive feelings that people have, especially people who work together, who belong to the same team etc) suffers.
7. In other cases, it could be part of a chain reaction, due to_______ (depending on or necessary to each other ) initiatives fighting for limited resources.
8. When organizations begin to _______(when a plan or activity goes wrong or does not have the result you wanted) due to misalignment, initiatives required to support and sustain profitable growth get into trouble.
9. _______(Bottom-up and top-down) planning and appropriate plan governance can align corporate strategy and prevent the symptoms that can negatively impact an organization.
10. It's not that the leadership and _______(the ordinary members of an organization or the ordinary workers in a company, as opposed to its leaders or managers ) employees don't want to see growth occur.
11. When strategy is misaligned operational initiatives are_______ (not matching or not in agreement ) with the strategic goals of the organization, mission drift occurs within the operations of the business.
12. This chaos _______ ( harm or damage someone or something, especially in a gradual way) on leaders and workers of the organization who share in a profound dislike of organizational chaos.
3. Arrange the sentences in the order they are given in the text
a) Just as it takes time and effort to see results from strategy, re-instilling strategy alignment and correcting misalignment requires time, work and discipline
b) Over time you'll find deadlines are not met within operations, product launches or service lines are delayed, and all of this directly impacts projected revenue streams.
c) It is that, despite their best intentions, they cannot sufficiently coordinate efforts on their own to right the ship.
d) It is critically important to identify strategic misalignment early since misalignment can lead to chaotic reactions.
e) Profitability suffers as a result of any of the symptoms presented here, such as when new services or products are delayed in roll-out because the initiatives to bring them to market are unsuccessful.
f) In other words, all parts of the organization's eco-system (the sum of internal and external functions of an organizations environment) are moving in the same well-defined direction.
g) If you notice an erosion of the corporate culture and morale problems, consider that your strategy may be misaligned.
h) Corporate strategy is the blend of strategic goals that support the mission and vision of an
organization.