Fee, executive, insure, skill, capacity, profile, applicant, charisma, ensure, guideline, superior

1. Ability to do something well.

2. Short biographical or character sketch.

3. Payment made for professional advice or services.

4. Person or body with managerial or administrative responsibility.

5. Make certain.

6. Secure compensation in the event of loss or damage by advance regular payments.

7. In a higher position; of higher rank.

8. Principle directing action.

9. Power to certain, receive, experience, or produce.

10. The ability to attract, influence, and inspire people by your personal qualities.

11. Someone who formally asks to be given something, such as a job or a place at a college or university.

Ex. 3. Give the Ukrainian equivalents to the following.

Involved in management; production oriented; impose regulations, ever-more-complex environment; encompasses both science and art; business executives; code of conduct; develop the body of knowledge; with respect to the second criterion; the issue is much less clear-out; is consistent with their interest; self-interest or concern for others; decision-making machinery; cross-cultural skills; consulting fee; character attributes; compare against the places set earlier; authority.

Ex. 4. Translate the following text into Ukrainian in written form.

People working for a company are referred as its workforce, employees, staff, or personnel and are on its payroll.

In some context, especially more conservative ones, employees and workforce refer to those working on the shopfloor of a factory actually making things. Similarly, staff is sometimes used to refer only to managers and office-based workers. This traditional division is also found in the expressions white-collar and blue-collar.

Another traditional division is that between management and labor.

Personnel departments are usually involved in finding new staff and recruiting them, hiring them, or taking them on, in a process of recruitment. Someone recruited is a recruit, or in American English only, a hire.

They are also involved when people are made to leave the organization, or fired. These responsibilities are referred to, relatively informally, as hiring and firing. If you leave the job voluntarily, you quit.

Middle-managers are now most often mentioned in the context of re-engineering, delaying, downsizing, or rightsizing: all these expressions describe the recent trend for companies to reduce the numbers of people they employ, often by getting rid of layers of managers from the middle of hierarchy.

An organization that has undergone this process is lean and its hierarchy is flat.

Read the text once again and in turn explain, in your own words, the meaning of the following terms:

1. workforce, employee, staff, personnel, a recruit, a hire, layer, labour.

2. white-collar, blue-collar.

3. to recruit, to employ, to hire.

4. to fire, to quit, to get rid of.

Ex. 5. On the left is a list of some of the idioms used at the meeting. Look at the expressions on the right and try to find the expression which is closest in meaning to the idiom.

a. in future 1.decide

b. it’s a matter of 2.in the way described

c. make our minds up 3.always after today

d. so far 4.to find the explanation or cause

e. in reality 5.some time soon

f. above all 6.it depends on

g. get to the bottom of 7.earlier than originally planned

h. in the near future 8.one way of achieving some objective

i. in that respect 9.until now

j. a means to an end 10.during

k. in the course of 11.this is the most important thing

l. ahead of schedule 12.this is truth, not imagination

Ex. 6. Fill in the blanks.