1. Answer these questions:

1. What does Top Management of a corporation consist of?

2. What does the board of directors determine?

3. Who is the head of a company?

4. What does the number of departments depend on?

5. Into what departments is the Production department divided?

6. What is the task of Marketing department?

7. Who heads the departments?

8. What should one do before starting a business?

2. Translate the sentences into English:

1. Каждая компания имеет свою деловую структуру.

2. Совет директоров определяет политику компании и назначает исполнителей.

3. Количество отделов в корпорации зависит от её размеров: чем больше корпорация, тем больше отделов она имеет.

4. Наиболее типичны следующие отделы: отдел кадров, отдел маркетинга, производственный, финансовый и исследовательский отделы.

5. Отдел маркетинга может также включать в себя отдел рекламы.

6. Финансовый отдел занимается счетами клиентов, зарплатой, налогами, капиталовложениями, затратами на производство и т.д.

7. Создание рациональной структуры бизнеса является залогом успеха вашего предприятия.

3. Match the jobs and their descriptions:

Managing Director	He makes the product which the company sells
Secretary	He buys all the things that the company needs
Finance Director	His job is to make sure that the company has a good image
Chief Accountant	His job is to find and test new products
Human Resources Manager	He is responsible for everything when the boss of Director is away
Purchasing manager	She types letters, files papers, makes appointments for the boss.
Assistant general manager	He has general responsibility for the whole company
Director of research and development	His job is to make sure that the company produces the goods which people want to buy.
Production Manager	He does the books and prepares the balance sheets.
Marketing Director	He is the company’s people manager.
Sales Director	He is in charge of people who sell the products.
Public Relations Manager	He looks after the company’s money.

4. Choose the correct department or division from the list:

Wages and Salaries, Purchasing, Distribution, Maintenance,

Advertising, Customers Accounts

Which department or division:

• Sends the product to the customers?

• Runs advertising campaign?

• Buys supplies?

• Pays the stuff?

• Sends invoices to the customers?

• Takes care of the machines?

5. Read the text and write about your thoughts concerning the job of an executive: The Functions of an Executive

As nearly everyone knows, an executive has practically nothing to do except to decide what is to be done; to tell someone do it, to listen to the reasons why it should not be done, why it should be done by someone else, or why it should be done in a different way; to follow up to see if the thing has been done; to discover that it has not; to inquire why; to listen feeble excuses from the person who should have done it; to follow it up again to see if the thing has been done, only to discover that it has now been done, but incorrectly; to point out how it should have been done; to conclude that until it can be redone it may as well be left how it is; to wonder if it is not time to get rid of a person who cannot do anything right, to reflect that he has a wife and children, and that any successor would probably be just as bad – and may be worse; to consider how much simpler it would have been and how much better the thing would have been done if one had done it oneself in the first place, to reflect sadly that one could have done it right in twenty minutes., and, as things turn out, one has had to spend two days to find out why it has taken three weeks for someone else to do it wrong.

Chapter 9: Communication in Business