Variant 1
READING COMPREHENSION
Read the following text and complete the tasks given below.
THE MANAGER: ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Managers are coordinators of economic activities in business organizations. Coordination of group efforts is an essential function in a company, and whoever acts as a coordinator is a manager.
Managers do not perform physical tasks which are necessary to produce and sell goods and services that are the output of the company. All this is done by workers and employees. On the other hand, the latter would be unable to achieve the goal of the organization without the guiding hand of management.
There are literally thousands of decisions in a company about what is to be done, who is to do it and how it is to be done. It is managers who make these decisions and see that they are implemented.
The duties of a manager include: the determination of the best form of organization, development of a control system, budgeting and forecasting, marketing and sales policies, effective performance of the sales staff, development of improved methods for planning and control of ordering, handling and sorting out of the material and supplies, determination of wages and salaries, the establishment of incentives for good performance.
The work of managers is, by no means, confined to manufacturing industries. It is indispensable in offices, banks, insurance agencies and other similar activities.
Speaking about personal qualities it should be noted that he/she needs energy, good judgment, a sense of reality and social responsibility.
Task 1. Find the English equivalents in the text.
Task 2. Mark the following statements as True or False. Correct the false ones using the information from the text.
Task 3. Answer the following questions in writing.
Task 4. Translate the paragraphs in italics into Russian in written form.
GRAMMAR Put the words in the correct order to make up a statement. Use the correct tense-forms of the verbs in brackets (Present Simple, Present Continuous, Present Perfect, Present Perfect Continuous, Past Simple, Past Continuous, Future Simple). Ask questions to the underlined words.
Choose the appropriate adverbial of time.
Task 2. Mark the following statements as True or False. Correct the false ones using the information from the text.
Managers are directly involved in the production and sales process. –
Managers do not perform physical tasks which are necessary to produce and sell goods and services. They coordinate the group efforts.
One of the duties of a manager is to develop a bonus system. – Managers do not take part in the decision-making process. –
Managers take part in the decision-making process. It is managers who make these decisions and see that they are implemented.
Managers can be found only in industrial enterprise – False.
The work of managers is indispensable in offices, banks, insurance agencies and other similar activities.
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