Unit 6 Contact the World

Reading A The Hunt for the Global ManagerQUESTION: What qualities make a successful manager?

• A. being decisive

• B. being efficient

• C. being friendly and sociable

• D. being able to communicate well with people

• E. being logical, rational and analytical

• F. being able to motivate, inspire and lead people

• G. being authoritative

• H. being competent

• I. being persuasive

• J. having good ideas

• K. being highly educated and knowing a lot about the world

• L. being prepared to work for 50 to 60 hours a week

• M. being ambitious in making money

hunt: • v. ① to chase animals in order to catch

and kill them, either for food or for sport• ②to try to find and catch someone hunt for something: to search carefully for

something • n. (usually singular) a search for someone

or something that is difficult to find• hunt for: the hunt for the missing child• the hunt is on: people have started looking

for someone or something

From Amsterdam to Yokohama, recruiters are looking for a new breed of multinational, multifaceted executives who can map strategy for the whole world.

• recruitn. ①a new member of an organization ②someone who has recently joined the

armed servicesv. ①attract new members to join in the armed

forces or organization ②to find someone to employ for a particular

job

• a breed of: a particular type of (quantifier / measuring unit)

• multi-: more than one (multifaceted: consisting of many different parts)

• poly-: many (polysyllabic / polysemy)• map ： to discover or show information abou

t something, especially about its shape or arrangement, or how it moves or works

map something out : to plan something in detail

• on short notice: with little advance warning; suddenly; quickly

TRANSLATING: Rather, it is that few companies --- even those characterizing themselves as global --- systematically develop international managers by rotating young executives through a series of foreign assignments.

• rotate: if a job rotates, or if people rotate jobs, they each do a particular job for a particular period of time

• The chairmanship of the committee rotates annually.

• Employers may rotate duties to give staff wider experience.

• 事实上，即使是自诩为跨国型的公司，也很少能做到通过一系列外派任务轮换青年主管来系统培养跨国型经理。

• TRANSLATING: Finding and training the best cross-border managers will be crucial to reaping better benefits currently.

• cross-border: relating to activity across a border between two countries

• reap: v. ①to cut and gather a crop of grain②To get something because of your hard work or thor

ough planningto reap no little benefit• 要想在目前受益，最关键之处在于寻找和培养最优秀的

跨国型经理。• turn to: to try to get help from sb.

• PARAPHRASING: Restructuring and market-development efforts are driving the recruiting surge as well.

• surge: n. ①a sudden strong feeling ②a sudden increase in some kind of

activityRestructuring and market-development

are also promoting the recruiting industry.

• veteran: someone who has a lot of experience in a particular activity, especially in war

• emerge: to come or appear from out of somewhere hidden

• emerging: in an early state of development

• pan-: of or relating to all or to the whole of

• hierarchy: a system of organization in which the members are arrange into higher and lower ranks

• prize(v.): to think that someone or something is very important

• accustom: to make yourself or other person become used to a situation or place

• entrepreneur: one who undertakes and assumes the risk of a business enterprise; contractor

• TRANSLATING: Today, the average executive has had three previous jobs.

• 现在，平均每位主管有三种以上的工作经历。

• PARAPHRASING: Given international expansion and the need to assign executives responsibility for more than one country, there is a desperate need for managers who understand foreign markets.

• given: (prep. + that) taking something into account• desperate: ①needing or wanting something very much desperate for　 The team is desperate for a win. 　 I was desperate for a cigarette.②violent and not caring about danger, especially becau

se you have lost hope

• Since companies are expanding internationally and executives are required to fulfill tasks in more than one country, it is quite necessary for managers to have a good command of foreign market.

• Some note that big differences remain between management systems in Europe, which executives may find hard to cope with no matter how cultural sensitive they are.

• Although some executives are very sensitive to cultural differences, they may still find it hard to deal with the differences in management systems in Europe.

• 有人认为欧洲的各种管理系统之间仍然有很大差异，而且不管这些主管的文化敏感度有多高也很难应付。

• Wary: careful about something because it is new or could cause problems 谨慎的 ; 小心翼翼的

• know something inside out: to know something extremely well

Reading B Employee Training

• If you are an employee, what skills would you like to be taught?

• If you are the secretary, how would you find out what skills the employees need to be taught?

• If you are a manager, how would you like to design the training courses?

Training Program Design

Program Implementation

Questions for training evaluation

Training Evaluation

Classroom discussion

Seminars

Audiovisual instruction

On-the-job training

Needs analysis

Materials, methods and activities

Curriculum

Simulated Writing Office ManagementItinerary• Name(s) of traveller(s)• Total and individual dates• Departure and arrival time of trains and air flights (include check-i

n time, airport, terminal; airline and flight number, arrival at each stopping place for air travel)

• Coach and seat number for rail travel• Hotel name, address, telephone number, fax number• Name of company, addresses, telephone numbers and names of c

ontacts• Name of person meeting on arrival (if it is available)• All time in the 24-hour clock system in order to avoid any confusio

n between am and pm• A copy of itinerary about the travellers’ movements

Travel ItineraryFROM TO VIA DATE &

TIMEEST ARRIVE

ACCOMMODATION

MEAL SERVICE

CAR RENTAL

HOTEL REMARK

N. Y. Boston Amtrak 5/6-11:30P

5/6-5:15A Car 106 Room A Train 467

---- Hertz Ford Parker House

ITINERARY FOR K. B. CUNNINGHAM

March 1-6, 199-

SUNDAY, MARCH 1 (Omaha to Philadelphia) No direct Flight available

4:15 p.m. Leave Omaha on American Flight 23. Change in Chicago to United

Flight 302 leaving at 6:15 p.m.

10:21 p.m. Arrive in Philadelphia. Guaranteed arrival reservation at Warwick

Hotel (confirmation attached).

MONDAY, MARCH 2 (West Chester Plant)

Take Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority Conrail commuter train

from Penn Center Station. Frequent service. (Papers in briefcase.)

TUESDAY, MARCH 3 (En Route to Brussels)

9:00 a.m. Leave Philadelphia on American Flight 2 to La Guardia Airport

(NewYork) to connect with Sabena Flight 34 to Brussels

11:00 a.m. Leave for Brussels. Reservation at International Hotel (reservation

attached)

Agenda for Chairperson

The role of the chairperson (person in charge of a meeting):

• Main duty: to keep discussion to the point and not to allow members to introduce irrelevant information.

• to prevent time-wasting arguments and irrelevant discussion; to ensure the items on the agenda are taken in the proper order; to remain impartial; not to allow a discussion unless there is a motion

Chairperson’s agenda:

• Chairperson’s agenda is different from the agenda of a meeting.

• An agenda of a meeting is a program of the items of business to be discussed at a meeting in the order in which they are to be considered.

• Everyone invited to attend the meeting will be supplied with an agenda of the meeting so that this gives them adequate notice and enables them, prior to the meeting, to plan ahead over the items of business to be discussed.

• The right-hand side of the paper is left blank for notes and additional information.