Professional Documents
Culture Documents
1. Find the best answer: Do you often read the 'situations vacant' ads?
a)
b)
c)
4. Find the best answer: How long do you intend to stay in your factory job?
a)
b)
c)
Key: 1. a, 2. c; 3. c, 4. b; 5. a.
Self-Evaluation Tests 2:
the
eg. management. No matter how skilled you are at developing a new product,
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1 providing with a service, or marketing your wares, the money you earn will
2 slip between your fingers if you do not know how to collect it, keep on track
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4 is one of the main reasons why businesses fail. In many cases, failure
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5 could have been avoided against if the owners had applied sound financial
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6 principles to all their dealings and decisions. So what is the most best way of
7 making sure that you are handling after your money correctly? The truth of
8 course is that you must have to pay a professional to do it for you. This
10 short term to save money in the long term, However, you are then faced
11 with a new other problem: how do you find the best consultant for your
12 business and make sure of you are getting value for money? The short
answer is that only time will tell.
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through
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2 we work with can tell it you, they are neither a soft option nor a quick fix.
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4 teams and they can only succeed if the organisational culture, along with a
6 self-managed teams requires not only most top level support but a clear
7 understanding of the concept which at all levels. Often staff who find themselves
9 managed teams simply means that they will be free to do what they are want
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10 without having to obey the orders of upper management and this simply is
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11 not the case. One of the most important areas we address with our clients
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12 is the need to re-educate staff with a regard to the practical meaning of the
word team, Such re-education is required from shop floor to board level.
In most of the lines 1 - 12, there is one extra word. It is either grammatically incorrect or does not fit in
with the meaning of the text. Some lines, however, are correct. Write the extra word in the margin, or
write correct. ( - the first two lines are examples)
eg From the outside looking in, it has may seem that what we offer our clients is has
eg nothing more than a simple delivery service. However, actually delivering the load
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1 is just the one small part of our operation. Our team includes a comprehensive
2 and efficient administration service which is also been essential for operating at the
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5 every delivery. This department is a responsible for providing our customers with
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6 a wide range of services and information, which will involves processing customs
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7 and proof of delivery documents, providing full pallet control and delivery updates
8 via our unique tracking system. Customers can also be access this information .
9 independently by using our new website. Security and an absolute confidentiality
10 are ensured by the use of individual PIN numbers which we have assign to each
11 load when we accept it. Links with our partners throughout worldwide mean that
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12 every customer is able to follow the progress of their goods all the way from
Argentina to Zimbabwe!
it
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1 agreement is one the first product of the strategic alliance with HarvestTate
2 that Roysten announced the last May. Roystens joint venture partner will be
5 1,000 buses a year, which selling at $ 50,000 each. Until now the U.S. school
6 bus market has been being dominated by the reassuring shape of John Lloyds .
7 yellow buses which have been made familiar to many all over the world
9 series. This situation looks set to be change, however, with Roysten and
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11 inbuilt safety features which are sure to find appeal to the nations parents
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12 regardless of cost. The market seemed to approve the move, with Roystens
shares closing up 22p at 246p.
Key:
Extra word n. 1
1 with
2 on
3 a
4 correct
5 against
6 most
7 after
8 must
9 correct
10 correct
11 other
12 of
Extra word n. 2
1 us
2 it
3 the
4 correct
5 been
6 most
7 which
8 correct
9 are
10 be
11 correct
12 a
Extra word n. 3
1 the
2 been
3 correct
4 of
5 a
6 will
7 correct
8 be
9 an
10 have
11 throughout
12 correct
Extra word n. 4
1 one
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
the
correct
out
which
being
correct
an
be
that
find
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Key:
1. b; 2. b; 3. a; 4. a; 5. b.