Lesson 2. Text: Human Resources: the people

Text: Human Resources: the people

Grammar: Tense Revision. Past time

 

Terms to remember:

 

skills	™	навички
job title	™	назва посади
define (v)	™	визначати
personal assistant	™	секретар-референт
authority	™	керівництво, влада; повноваження
executive (exec)	™	керівник, адміністратор, службовець; виконавець
supervisor	™	інспектор; керівник персоналу (на підприємстві); контролер; керівник нижчої ланки
workforce	™	робоча сила; кадри, штатні працівники
on the payroll	™	в штатному складі (підприємства)
payroll	™	платіжна відомість
monthly-paid staff	™	персонал, який отримує заробітну платню щомісячно
weekly-paid staff	™	персонал, який отримує заробітну платню щотижнево
hourly-paid staff	™	персонал, який отримує заробітну платню погодинно
white-collar worker	™	службовець; білий комірець (працівник, зайнятий інтелектуальною працею)
manual worker	™	робітник фізичної праці
blue-collar worker	™	робітник; блакитний комірець (працівник, зайнятий фізичною працею)
colleague/co-worker	™	колега, співробітник

 

Human Resources: the people

 

“Human Resources” means people, plus the skills and experience they bring to an organization. Job titles such as “Accounts Manager” or “Personal Assistant” define what people do.

An employer is a person or company that provides job. Boss is an informal word meaning “someone in authority”, for example an employer or owner of a company, or simply someone in a superior position.

The person who runs a specific part of an organization is called a manager. An executive or, informally, an exec is usually a manager at quite a high level. People at the head of an organization, as it was already mentioned, are senior executives, top executives or top managers. Someone who is in charge of making sure a job is well done e.g. on the factory floor, or in retailing, is sometimes called a supervisor.

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

Payroll is the list of all the people employed by a company, and the amount of money paid to each of them. The payroll is usually divided into monthly-paid staff, weekly-paid staff and hourly-paid staff.

Professionals or people who perform various office jobs are white-collar workers, while manual workers in factories, on building sites, etc. are called blue-collar workers. Someone who works with you in your job is a colleague (sometimes called a co-worker).

 

Exercises in Word Study

 

Ex.1. Form verbs from the following nouns:

employer, provider, runner, manager, executive, supervisor, assistant, authority, owner.

 

Ex.2. Give the English for:

людські ресурси; навички та досвід; роботодавець; керівник; службовець (2); платіжна відомість; персонал, який отримує заробітну платню щомісячно/щотижнево/погодинно; робітник; колега; керівництво.

 

Ex.3. Match words from list A with words from list B that have a similar meaning:

A	B
specific manual provide workforce colleague define authority owner	give co-worker definite physical possessor personnel specify power

 

Ex.4. Find suitable opposites to the following words and phrases:

employee, blue-collar worker, general, inferior, junior, formal.