II. Exercises on the Text:

3. Give English equivalents to:

подобная по уровню и объему; человеческие ресурсы и управление финансовой деятельностью; вопросы, включающие производственные мощности и качество; ответственность за управление произ-водством; подавляющее большинство; «взаимоотношения с людьми»; методы и действия для их использования; гиб-кость производственного процесса; как физические, так и информационные; плавность движения ресурсов и посту-пления данных; временное конкурентное преимущество.

4. Answer the following questions:

1. What is operations management?

2. What does production management include in manufacturing operations?

3. What are the «five M’s»?

4. Why is «people management» one of the production manager’s most important responsibilities?

5. How must the production manager choose the machines and methods of the company?

6. In what phase of production management the flexibility of the production process is an important issue?

7. What does the production manager’s responsibility for materials include?

8. How is the manager’s concern for money explained?

9. What manager runs the risk?

10. Will high current costs wipe out any temporary competitive advantage?

III. Grammar Exercises

			ing — forms
noun		adjective		gerund		participle I
(pricing)		(managing)		(delivering)		(smb. working)

Active Voice

Continuous Tenses (Progressive)	be	Participle I (verb + ing)	Time Markers
Present Continuous	am, is, are	building	
Past Continuous	was, were	asking	 8
Future Continuous	shall (will) be		 8

5. Write down the following verbs in the form of Participle I.

1. to manage, to know, to include, to involve, to refer, to operate, to work, to select, to control, to plan, to determine, to explain, to finance, to get, to study, to write, to persuade, to increase, to die.

6. Translate the following sentences into Russian paying attention to the functions of Participle I:

1. Marketing concentrates primarily on the buyers, or consumers, determining their needs and desires, educating them, developing strategies to persuade them to buy.

2. For retailers, the use of catalogs makes it possible to do business considerably beyond their usual trading area.

3. The whole month I was working hard. We were auditing accounts of a joint venture.

4. The State Tax Service in Russia is a new organization but its role is becoming very important because more and more new businesses are appearing in the country.

5. The majority of corporations are small, differing little in their characteristics from other forms of business.

6. An Italian delegation arrived yesterday. At 9 we were meeting the delegation at the airport, at 12 we were having lunch, at 2 we were discussing the contract.

7. Those who interpret the voting incorrectly, producing too much or too little, or charging a price that is too low, do not earn profits.

8. At least half the nation’s 50 leading corporations have mail-order divisions.

9. You phoned at 9.15, didn’t you? We were discussing our business plan at that time.

10. Also carving its own niche is telephone marketing.

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