- •3.1 Getting started.
- •3.2 Look through the following vocabulary notes which will help you understand the text and discuss the topic.
- •3.3 Reading Manpower Planning and Recruitment
- •Organisation
- •Its strengths and weaknesses
- •Managers, professionally qualified supervisors, clerical, skilled manual, semi-skilled, unskilled workers
- •Interview interview apply test interview
- •3.4 Comprehension
- •3.4.1 Answer the questions using the active vocabulary and Unit 3 Glossary.
- •3.4.2 Mark these statements t(true) or f(false) according to the information in the Text and Unit 3 Glossary. If they are false say why.
- •3.5 Language practice
- •3.5.1 Match the English terms in the left-hand cplumn with the definition in the right-hand column.
- •3.5.2 Complete the following texts using the suitable words or phrases from the box.
- •Wage Policy
- •Methods of Payment: Flat rate Scheme
- •Methods of Payment: Incentive Schemes
- •3.5.3 Complete the text. Replace the Russian words and phrases by the English equivalents. Education and Training
- •3.5.4 Text for discussion.
- •Training Strategy
- •3.6 Render the passage in English using the English equivalents of the italicised phrases given in Russian. Express the main idea of the passage in one sentence.
3.5 Language practice
3.5.1 Match the English terms in the left-hand cplumn with the definition in the right-hand column.
1 |
Wage |
A |
The prospects of continued employment with little or no fear of being forced to leave. |
2 |
Retraining |
B |
A cost or benefit that motivates a decision or action by employees, consumers, businesses, or other participants in the economy. |
3 |
Redundancy |
C |
A list that a person might use for general tasks, or functions, and responsibilities of a position. |
4 |
Manpower |
D |
The workforce of an organization. |
5 |
Labour |
E |
The satisfaction or utility that a worker receives from employment. |
6 |
Job specification |
F |
Power in terms of people available or required for work or military service. |
7 |
Human capital |
G |
Specific employment activities associated with a production process that are usually undertaken by a single worker. |
8 |
Incentive |
H |
An attempt to motivate employees by giving them the opportunity to use the range of their abilities. |
9 |
Job analysis |
I |
Money you earn that is paid according to the number of hours, days, or weeks that you work. |
10 |
Job security |
J |
Vertical job promotion. |
11 |
Labour turnover |
K |
The process of learning a new skill or trade, often in response to a change in the economic environment. |
12 |
Job description |
L |
the rate at which an employer gains and loses employees. |
13 |
Job |
M |
The sum total of a person's productive knowledge, experience, and training. |
14 |
Job satisfaction |
N |
The process of describing and recording aspects of jobs and specifying the skills and other requirements necessary to perform the job. |
15 |
Career ladder |
O |
One of the four basic categories of resources, or factors of production (the other three are capital, land, and entrepreneurship). |
16 |
Human resources |
P |
A statement of employee characteristics and qualifications required for satisfasctory performance of defined duties and tasks comprising a specific job or function. |
17 |
Job enrichment |
Q |
Temporary suspension or permanent termination of employment of an employee or (more commonly) a group of employees for business reasons. |