- •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. Which of the statements are true about the article? Correct the false ones.
1.Prejudices never influence the organization operation.
2. It is not possible to work effectively in a heterogeneous group.
3. The complexity of communication grows proportionally to the growth of diversity in an organization.
4. Conflicts arise due to awareness of cultural diversity.
5. A culturally- diverse organization usually flourish.
6. Companies with strong culture do not accept any changes.
3. Do you agree or disagree with the following statements about stereotypes?
National stereotypes are dangerous because they may create prejudice.
Stereotypes contain a certain amount of truth and therefore useful.
There is no such thing as national character, and therefore the idea of national stereotypes is completely wrong.
The reason stereotypes exist is because people are afraid of diversity and what is unknown. They prefer to hold on the simple classifications, which maintain an old, familiar and established order.
Stereotypes are simply harmless sorts of jokes we tell about other nationalities.
4. Complete the old joke about heaven and hell in Europe, based on stereotypes of various nationalities, using the words in the box
cooks engineers lovers organizers police |
Heaven is a place where the 1)… are British, the 2)… are French, the 3) … are German, the 4)… are Swiss and the 5)… are Italian.
Hell is where the 6) … are British, the 7) … are French, the 8) … are German, the 9) … are Swiss and the 10)… are Italian.
5. Choose the best word or phrase to complete the sentences.
Reaching …… is an important aspect of Dutch and Swedish business culture. Everyone needs to be consulted before a decision is reached.
decisions b) argument c) consensus d) democracy
Geert Hofstede chose IBM for his famous study on the effect of the culture on organizations because IBM had a very strong….. .
product range b) work ethic c) corporate culture d) management style
3. Developing cultural …… is one of the main aims of intercultural training courses.
a) perception b) awareness c) trust d) experience
4. Each company and organization has its own distinctive…… , which can sometimes be more of a barrier in international mergers than differences in national culture.
a) dress code b) example c) experience d) organizational culture
5. Global companies need to get the best from their international, ….. workforce.
a) open-minded b) competitive c) diverse d) decisive
6. Complete the sentences .
One of the most important aspects of culture are v….., the principles and beliefs that influence the behaviour and way of life of a particular group or community.
Cultures also have different b……, things which people in that culture consider to be true.
Differences between cultures can create b……, so that understanding and communication become difficult.
Some cultural differences are quite visible, such as d….(the clothes people wear).
The most visible difference between cultures is b………, such as styles of greeting, the use of names and ways of interacting in general.
If we generalize about a culture and its characteristics, we are in danger of creating s….. .