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 certify, receive, experience, or produce.

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

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

Ex. 5. Give the Russian 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. 6. a) Translate the following text into Russian:

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

In some contexts, especially more conservative ones, em­ployees and workforce refer to those working on the shop-floor 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 flat.

b) 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.

2. white-collar, blue-collar.

3. to recruit, to employ, to hire.

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