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2. What is responsibility and what is authority? Insert the words responsibility or authority in the gaps.

To be a successful manager you must know your … and … is the obligation to carry out a task. It is the actual work that is delegated to a person. … is the right to act in the name of a superior in an organization. Sometimes we read that a person must have … equal to the … . This confuses different concepts: … is an obligation, is a right or power. They are two different things. If you hold a person responsible for carrying out certain tasks you must ensure that he or she has the means to do those tasks. The … you grant must be adequate to accomplish the task you have delegated, but must not exceed your own … .

3. Read and be ready to discuss most important characteristics for a successful manager.

The qualities that will be important for a successful manager in future have been identified. Essentially, these characteristics are equally important for successful managers today. The most effective leaders will have the following characteristics:

Character, or the integrity that causes people to trust them.

Initiative, or the willingness to provide the ideas and take the risk along with the chance of success.

Desire to serve people by listening to them and helping them to grow and develop.

Intelligence, as evidenced by the capacity to think at a high level of competence, analyze effectively, and learn quickly, and a continuing interest in learning.

Awareness and perception of what is going on around them within land – outside the business – and the ability to evaluate its significance to the organization and its people.

Foresight, vision, and intuition to sense the probabilities of what may affect the organization and its people.

Open-mindedness and flexibility to consider new fads, ideas and situations.

4. Read the text and translate it. The business leader

The first job of the business leader is to provide the overall vision, or strategy, of the business.

The leader must formulate and communicate a picture of the company that everyone can understand and contribute to. The questions the leader answers,

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based on his insight and foresight, are: Who are our customers and what problems of theirs do we propose to solve? The leader must also shape the thinking and attitudes of the people in the company. Through personal example, and communication, the leader inspires them.

Finally, the leader must integrate the organization’s processes so that the organization achieves its goals. The leader sets the agenda for the employees and allocates resources in the way that will achieve the results for the enterprise as a whole. The leader is also the process owner for the management process. It is the leader who decides how the company will be run, although co-ordinators and employees who do the actual running.

What is your opinion: Are leaders born or made? Do men make better managers than women?

IV. Speaking Practice

1. Discuss in pairs advantages and disadvantages of being a manager.

You may use the following phrases:

– My point of view is …

– I’m convinced that …

– I believe you know that …

Advantages Disadvantages

– great salary –working overtime

– extra benefits –not seeing much of one’s family

– prestigious work –not having much holiday

– working with interesting people – being always busy at work

– good conditions of work

2. Get ready to speak in details about your future profession.

V. Written Task

Translate into Russian using a dictionary.