martes, 29 de abril de 2008

unit 2. Leadership

  • appraise. (valorar algo no monetario)

e.g. The department manager will appraise each employee endividually.


  • authority. (autoridad)

e.g. The managers in our company have a great deal of authority.

The public health authority.

  • autonomy. (autonomía)
e.g. I've always belibed that it's best to give staff as much autonomy as possible.


  • coach. (entrenador)

e.g. He's a very successful football coach.

I'm responsible for coaching two mew people in the department.

  • delegate. (delegar responsabilidades)
e.g. Managers need ro delegate more routine tasks to junior members of staff.


  • motivate. (motivar)

e.g. He's very good at motivating his sales team.

  • objective. (objetivo)
e.g. I have a meeting with my live manager to fix my objectives every six months.


  • staff. (empleado)

e.g. The new manager will be joining the staff in November.

Each of our centres is staffed by expert personnel.

  • subordinate. (subordinado)
e.g. I have six sobordinates that report to me.


  • supervise. (supervisar)
e.g. We need to supervise the trainees very closely.


  • task. (tarea o labr de trabajo)
e.g. Tasks are generally assigned to empoyees at the start of the week.

unit 1. Companies.

  • asset. (ventaja)

e.g. The company has recently sold some of its assets to an Australian investor.

  • company. (compañía)

e.g. I work for the Coca-Cola company.

  • competition. (competencia en mercadotecnia)

e.g. The competition is gettin tougher every year.

  • entrepreneur. (empresario)

e.g. Entrepreneurs have always played a key role in the economy.

  • feelance. (trabajar por cuenta propia para varias empresas)

e.g. We're going to use a freelane designer for the company website.

  • hierarchy. (jerarquía)

e.g. Many Swedish firms have very flat hierarchy.

  • merger. (fusión)

e.g. The merger will have to be approved by the authorities.

  • share. (acción)

e.g. Investors are having to pay a higer price for the company's shares.

  • trade union. (sindicato)

e.g. The trade union is in pay negociations with the employer.