The Business of Management – Program 13
Test on the video film
A. Previewing tasks.
Task I. Before watching the film, make sure you know the following words and word combinations:
| - staffing / recruiting / hiring
- personnel department
- a job posting
- expansion
- performance appraisal
- work background
- tools
| - peers, volunteers
- cost-effective
- unfair
- to handle
- to utilize
- to involve
- to convince
- to make up for smth
| - to be aware of smth
- to be put on a bulletin board
- to perceive a need
- to fill out a requisition
- to assign the responsibility
- to be promoted / transferred
- to be terminated / fired
- to resign, to retire
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Task II. Mind the following proper nouns:
The Reader's Digest Pleasantville, New York the Urban League
Dewitt and Lyla Wallace New York State Unemployment Service
B. While watching.
Task III. Give all the synonyms to the word “vacancy” that are mentioned in the film.
Task IV.Basing on the following key words and expressions, make a short oral presentation of the company “Reader's Digest”:
| - be located
- be founded
- circulation
- edition
- staffing needs
| - personnel department
- the magazine “Families”
- the role of a manager
- work culture
- the motto of the Digest
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