- •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?
Overall discussion.
The topic of “bad leaders” is not often mentioned in university courses. Why? Is it
worth discussing?
What could be the reasons for such behaviour?
How would you deal with such bosses?
WORDLIST FOR UNIT 1 (Textbook and compendium)
Look through the list of words carefully. Translate all the terms and be ready to explain them in English. Learn the terms and be sure you know how to use them.
Page/ source |
Terms and expressions |
Translation or explanation |
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TEXTBOOK |
p. 6 |
Field (n) |
Area of study or activity e.g. All of them are experts in their chosen field. |
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Head (v, n) |
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Goal, aim, objective, target (n) |
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Hand (n) |
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Start-up (n), start-up capital (n) |
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Loan (n), bank loan |
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Be in charge of, be responsible for |
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Tax (n), tax deduction |
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Net profit |
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Work one’s way up the ladder |
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Stay ahead of competitors |
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Entrepreneur (n) |
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Cross-border (adj) |
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Empower (v), empowerment (n) |
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Micromanage (v) |
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Non-renewable (adj) |
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Undertrained (adj) |
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Commitment (n) |
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extra |
Campaign (n) |
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Found, establish, set up (v) |
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Go under, go bust, (v) |
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Labour (n) |
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Deregulate (v). deregulation (n) |
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p. 8 |
Expertise (n) |
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T 1 |
Charisma (n), charismatic (adj) |
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Controversy (n), controversial (adj) |
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Nature vs nurture |
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Keep one’s eye on smth (ex. overall goals) |
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Get caught up in smth (ex. details) |
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Knowledgeable (adj) |
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Respond to change |
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Necessarily |
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T 2 |
Intrinsic |
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T 3 |
Leadership styles: Autocratic Paternalistic Democratic (consultative, persuasive) Laissez-faire |
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Welfare (n) |
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T 4 |
Hierarchy (n) |
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Layers of management |
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Implement (v) |
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Tackle (v) (ex. the challengers) |
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Merger (n) |
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Acquisition (n) |
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p. 9 |
See smth through |
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Come up with a proposal, an idea |
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Gap (n) (ex. fill a gap in the market) |
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Set (v) (ex. a goal, a deadline) |
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Make a profit |
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Draw on (v) (ex. knowledge, experience, resources) |
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Performance (n) (ex.evaluate individual performance) |
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Flow chart (n) |
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T 5 |
Enterprise (n) |
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Evolve (v) |
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Consequences (n) |
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What makes smb tick (idiom) |
What makes smb behave in the way they do |
T 6 |
Goods and services (n) |
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Wages vs salary (n) |
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Charge(v) (ex. consumers) |
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Pass on (responsibilities) |
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T 7 |
Manual workers |
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Skilled workers |
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T 8 |
Averse (adj) (ex. risk-averse) |
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Pros and cons (n) |
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Stamina (n) |
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T 9 |
Transactional leader |
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Transformational leader |
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T 10 |
Tight (adj) (ex. set tight schedules) |
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The former...the latter |
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Means (n) (ex. a means to an end) |
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Task-orientated leader |
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Outline (n) |
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T 11 |
Gamble (n), gambler (n) |
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Entrepreneurial spirit |
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Customise (v) (ex. a service) |
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COMPENDIUM |
Text 1. |
Ensure (v) |
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Maintain (effective relationship) |
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Morale |
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Sense of common purpose |
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Staff |
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Achievement orientated |
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Calculated risk taker |
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Impose decisions |
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Compliance |
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Trade smth for smth |
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Task orientated approach |
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Backing |
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Ambiguous |
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To run (organisation) |
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Come to the fore |
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Text 2 |
Resentment |
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Offender |
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Violation |
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To toe the line |
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Backfire |
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Hunker down |
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Stifle (creativity) |
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Layoff (n) |
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Top performers |
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Akin to |
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Plum assignment |
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Hassle |
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Deflect all the blame onto others |
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Integrity |
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Text 3 |
Non-negotiable |
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Blanket (v) |
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Yield staggering growth |
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At stake |
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Arguably |
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Feel empowered |
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Unit 2 Culture and change
Text 1