2 Decide if these statements are true or false.

1 Sempler started the company himself.

2 Sempler gave control to the managers.

3 The company does not have a hierarchy of levels.

4 There is a new CEO every three years.

5 Everyone is responsible for his own secretarial work.

6 Workers can select their managers.

7 Sempler decides on the working hours and pay.

8 Sempler feels that people become more responsible when they make the decisions.

3 To go with the topic further, read information about St.Luke’s advertising agency.

Another, but less dramatic example is St.Luke’s advertising agency. It employs about 100 people. The agency’s Managing Director, Andy Law, and Chairman, David Abrahams, wanted to introduce a sense of “employee ownership”. They decide the overall strategy of the company but most of the management decisions are made by groups of people from all levels of the agency. Law and Abrahams have had to prepare their employees to take more responsibility and a more active role in the company. For example, they could not expect a designer to know how to keep accounts without any training. Employees are, therefore, all educated in different areas of the business and are given the skills that they will need to participate in the running of their company. For empowerment to be successful, organizations must be ready to provide employees with the appropriate training.

4 Answer the questions on the text read.

1 How many people work at St.Like’s agency?

2 Who are Andy Law and David Abrahams?

3 Who makes most of the management decisions?

4 How did Abrahams and Law prepare their staff to take more responsibility?

5 What do companies need to do for empowerment to be successful?

5 Give your personal reasons as for

• practicability of the ideas from both texts for Ukraine,

• advantages and disadvantages in organizations like Semco or St.Like’s,

• advantages of working in a company with traditional hierarchy.

5 Read the idioms, find their Ukrainian/Russian equivalents and memorize them.

1The customer is always right.

2 Practice makes perfect.

4 Business before pleasure.

5 Business is business.

6 The first blow is half the battle.

7 Everybody’s business is nobody’s business.

8 Clothes make the man.

9 Cut your coat according to your cloth.

11 He works best who knows his trade.

Y PRACTISE GRAMMAR

COMPLEX OBJECT

1 Translate into Ukrainian. Differentiate the use of the infinitive with or without to.

1 We know him to be an effective manager.

2 Everybody believes your suggestion to choose the situation for the best.

3 All the customers know this product to improve health.

4 Let’s choose some points to discuss at the meeting.

5 They consider our company to be a reliable partner.

6 I want you to interview this person in five minutes.

7 Economic crisis caused the prices go down.

8 We felt his views change a little bit after discussion.

9 He observed the staff get new knowledge and skills.

10 My boss made me enter University.

11 All of us saw the boss leave the office.

12 I never heard him ask a question.

13 He felt the car move slower and then stop.

14 Our business partners find the contract to be successful.

15 They require their personnel to follow a dress code.