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COMPANY. HUMAN RESOURCES. MANAGEMENT
UNIT 1. A COMPANY AND ITS STAFF
Lesson 1
Task 1. a) Study the words which are often used to denote business entities:
1. Company [`kAmp ə ni] is the general word for an organization with a number of managers and employees. The word is often combined with other nouns.
E.g. | A new director of the company was introduced to the staff. I work for an insurance company. |
2. Business [`bıznəs] is an organization that makes, buys or sells goods and provides services for money, especially one owned and run by one person or a small group of people (e.g. a family).
E.g. | She left to start her own catering business. He sold the business that his father and grandfather had built up. |
3. Enterprise [`entəpraız] is a company or business, often a small one. The word “enterprise” is often used in government texts and business journalism.
E.g. | There are plenty of small industrial enterprises in the area. The country has been selling off its state enterprises. |
4. Firm [fə:m] is a small, fairly specialized organization, especially one that sells professional advice or services.
E.g. | He works for a large New York law firm (a firm of architects; a firm of management consultants). |
5. Corporation [ֽkO:pə`reı∫ən] is a large company that employs a lot of people. Corporation is often used to talk about very large American business companies.
E.g. | The state-run sugar corporation needs investments. Some of the Hollywood studios were bought by big Japanese corporations. |
6. Operation is a company or business involving many parts; one part of a large company or business.
E.g. | It’s a huge multinational operation. Network Computing Inc. plans to open a UK operation in Britain next year. |
7. Practice is a business or place that offers professional advice or treatment, especially in law and medicine.
E.g. | She runs a successful law practice. |
8. H ouse (used in compounds) is a company involved in a particular type of business. House is used in compounds such as a / an fashion / publishing / software / investment / auction house.
E.g. | The publishing house made its name by encouraging first-time writers. |
b) Use the above words in the sentences of your own.
Task 2. a) Mind the difference in meaning of the following words.
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1) a number of people gathered together; assembly; 2) the fact of being with someone; companionship; 3) a social visitor or visitors; guest or guests; 4) a business enterprise; 5) the members of an enterprise not specifically mentioned in the enterprise’s title; 6) a group of actors, usually including business and technical personnel. | 1) a series of coordinated activities, such as public speaking and demonstrating, designed to achieve a social, political, or commercial goal: e.g. a presidential campaign / an advertising campaign; 2) (military) a number of complementary operations aimed at achieving a single objective, usually constrained by time or geographic area. |
b) Which meaning of the above words is revealed in the following sentences?
1. Alex is a geologist employed by a big oil company. – Алекс геолог, який працює на велику нафтову компанію.
2. He is poor company. – Він нудний співрозмовник.
3. She joined the company in 1997. – Вона прийшла на роботу в компанію у 1997 році.
4. I enjoy the company of animals better than people. – Мені більше подобається бути серед тварин, аніж людей.
5. It has been a most successful political campaign. – Це була надзвичайно успішна політична кампанія.
6. It is alleged that a company used illegal methods to finance its campaign. – Стверджується, що компанія використовувала незаконні методи фінансування своєї кампанії.
7. It’s the first time a French company has put on this ballet. – Французька трупа вперше займається постановкою цього балету.
8. Two’s company, three’s a crowd. – Третій зайвий (у стосунках).
9. Local people have launched a campaign against the hospital’s closure. – Місцеві жителі розпочали кампанію проти закриття лікарні.
10. Some of the jokes weren’t really suitable for mixed company. – Деякі з жартів були зовсім недоречні в компанії, де були і жінки, і чоловіки.
11. Such behaviour is not acceptable in polite company. – Подібна поведінка неприйнятна у пристойному товаристві.
12. The UNO initiated the campaign against world hunger. – ООН ініціювала кампанію проти голоду в світі.
13. Things started to go wrong when he got into bad company. – Справи погіршилися, коли він попав у погану компанію.
14. This victory was the turning point of the campaign. – Ця перемога стала переломним моментом у військовій кампанії.
15. You’ve left the door open. Are you expecting company? – У вас відчинені двері. Чекаєте гостей?
c) Make up similar sentences of your own.
Task 3. Use the adjectives below with the words “company” / “campaign”. Which of the adjectives can be used with either of the nouns?
COMPANY | CAMPAIGN |
1.affiliate; | 3. election; | 5. anti-drug; | 7.unlimited; | 7.manufacturing; |
2.holding; | 4.political; | 6. insurance; | 8.marketing; | 10.advertising. |
Task 4. a) The words below frequently occur after “COMPANY”.
b) Which of the above word-combinations means:
· a car that a company provides for an employee to use;
· a specialist who is employed to manage a company during a period of financial difficulty; a physician employed by a company to look after its staff and to advise on health matters;
· a person who has an official position in a company and represents a company in its activities;
· a person in a company, usually chosen by the directors, who has various legal duties, such as looking after the company’s official documents and arranging company meetings;
· an organization that a company forms for its employees to represent them when dealing with the managers;
· an employee who puts allegiance to the company for which he works above personal opinion or friendship;
· illegal activity of finding out valuable information which is intellectual property of a company (know-how, research developments, etc.) in behalf of another organization or group of people;
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