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Task 1

The diagram below shows the management structure of Universal Software. Match the people (1-8) with their positions. Write the letter of your chosen answer in the box on the right.

1. I’m Marco Alatri and I’m the director responsible for the company budgets and accounts.
С
2. I’m Tom Scott. I’m not actually a manager at Universal, but I do sit on the board.
B
3. My name is Helen Good. I’m the CEO and I also chair the board.
A
4. My name’s Carla Jelinek. I’m in charge of the company’s information system.5.
D
5. I’m Dan Matthews. My team develops new products and tests them.
G
6. I’m Karine and my team deals with calls from the public and complaints.
K
7. I’m Alex Tait and I’m responsible for company recruitment and staff development.
F
8. My name is Patric Aubaile and I report to the CEO. E

Task 2

Choose the best word from the brackets () to fill the gap.

1. Our sales manager heads UP a department of 40 people. (out/off/up)
2. I work in accounts and Tina is my HEAD manager. (line/head/over)
3. I work for Franz and I think he is the best DIRECTOR I’ve ever had. (boss/executive/director)
4. I was in MIDDLE management for 10 years before I became a director. (medium/middle/vice)
5. Tanya Minelli VP Marketing  at Global Foods in New York. (VP/COO/CEO)
6. She’s the only woman here who has a SENIOR executive position. (higher/chief/senior)

Task 3

Choose the best word from the brackets () to fill the gap.

1. The Ford Motor Company was FOUNDED in 1903. (find/found/founded)
2. There were 2,700 business START-UPS in the UK in the last quarter. (start-ups/get-ups/start-offs)
3. Sir Richard Branson is one of Britain’s MOGULS of industry. (bosses/captains/moguls)
4. Rupert Murdoch is a media LEADER who owns many newspaper and TV companies. (leader/magnate/founder)
5. That’s Angelina Carlito. She’s a very successful BUSINESSWOMAN . (businessman/businesswoman/business people)
6. My mother started with one shop and now she heads up a huge business EMPIRE . (empire/country/world)

Task 4

Find the answers to each clue. One or two letters are given in each case.

1. Woman or man who has their own company.
2. Owns film studios – perhaps in Hollywood (2 words).
3. One who started a company.
4. Collective term for TV, radio, newspapers.
5. Owns wells and pipelines – for ‘black gold’ (2 words)

1. b u s i n e s s p e o p l e
2.mediamogul
3.founder
4.media
5.oilmagnate

Task 5

Read the following article from the ‘Financial Times’ and answer the questions.

JORMA OLLILA
By Richard Milne
Despite chairing two of Europe’s largest companies and heading a group of the continent’s leading industrialists, Jorma Ollila is hardly a household name. This suits the operational style of the 58-year-old Finn, who is Chairman of both Nokia, the world’s largest mobile phone company, and Royal Dutch Shell, Europe’s biggest oil group. He is also Head of the European Roundtable of Industrialists, a grouping of the continent’s leading 50 or so chief executives or chairmen. ‘We like to work in the background, ‘ says Mr.Ollila, in what could almost be his mission statement.
As well as masking his level of influence today, his low-key style contrasts sharply with his record. During his 15 years as Chief Executive of Nokia, he turned what was once a struggling industrial conglomerate into a global phone powerhouse.
He has long had a focus on the social aspects of business. Indeed, Mr.Ollila says he is most of all ‘a people manager’. For example, although okia was in trouble when he took over as the company’s CEO in 1992, he still found time to set  out values on how the group should behave, treat its people and deal with internal conflicts. He argues that management ahs to take such a task seriously, instead of making it ‘an annexe in the annual report’. As CEO, he felt his role was ‘to get everybody involved, create a sense of urgency, who does what, and then:run’.
Mr.Ollila was helped at the start by the fact that nobody expected much. ‘We could work for the first two years without anybody expecting anything other than survival at best.’ Most fondly, however, he talks of his time as part of a team with an average age under 40 who then turned Nokia around. ‘It was an entrepreneurial task. It was extremely rewarding,’ he says.
The concern for what he calls ‘the human role’ above things like skills and strategy comes across in his passion for the Nordic approach to business. He echoes Jack Welch, the former boss of General Electric, in criticising some companies’ sole focus on shareholder value. ‘The current crisis will lead to a rethink in the cororate world. It is not just about short-term, mid-term or long-term profitability but it is also about certain values.’
Values are not the only Nordic thing Mr.Ollila thinks the world should adopt. He argues that the Nordic way of capitalism – being open to globalisation but protecting people from its negative aspects and providing everyone with a good education – provides the answers that are needed.

Task 5.1

Find expressions in the text that refer to the following.

1. the way that someone works
Operational style
2. Someone who is very well known
Household name
3. Heads of companies
Chief executives or chairmen
4. Behaviour that is not meant to be noticed To work in the background
5. An unsuccessful group of companies
To be in trouble
6. A very important business person working in industry The Head
7. A sentence that describes a company’s main purpose We like to work in the background, ‘ says Mr.Ollila, in what could almost be his mission statement.
8. A dynamic company
Struggling conglomerate

Task 5.2

Answer the question: What did Jorma Ollila focus on at Nokia? He has long had a focus on the social aspects of business.

Task 6

Write a paragraph on ‘Who is your country’s famous enterpreneur? What is he/she famous for?’

Kira Sergeevna Plastinina was born in 1992, Moscow, Russia. She is a Russian fashion designer and a daughter of the Russian businessman Sergei Plastinin.
Kira Plastinina combines modeling business (she works as the lead designer of the project in the company of her father) with her studies at the Anglo-American school in Moscow.
The trademark “Kira Plastinina” is a personal project of Sergey Plastinin. In the development of this brand in Russia, a marketing company and the establishment of a representative office in China, where clothes are produced at third-party factories, Plastinin invested $ 35 million, another approximately the same amount was invested in the development of the brand in the USA, where 12 stores were originally opened, at the end of 2008 they were closed for years due to the economic crisis, and in the summer of 2009 two stores were reopened in Los Angeles.
In 2007 the first fashion show of designer Kira Plastinina and the opening of the first style studio of the same name brand Kira Plastinina at the Evropeisky shopping center took place.
In 2011, a new collection by Kira Plastinina called “LUBLU” was shown as part of Volvo Fashion Week. The main guest of the show was Georgia May Jagger.
In September 2008, Kira Plastinina made her debut with her Spring-Summer 2009 collection at Milan Fashion Week.