LSC 2163 - English ( Unit 1 )

1. Textbook Unit 2

1.1. Challenging: Calling for full use of one's abilities or resources in a difficult but stimulating effort.

1.2. Ambitious: having a strong desire for success or achievement.

1.3. Creative: Relating to or involving the use of the imagination or original ideas to create something.

1.4. Responsibility: The state or fact of having a duty to deal with something or of having control over someone.

1.5. Potential: Capable of being but not yet in existence.

1.6. labour relations: collective relations between the management of an organization and its employees or employees' representatives.

1.7. Wages: money that is paid or received for work or services, as by the hour, day, or week.

1.8. Self-motivated: Motivated to do or achieve something because of one’s own enthusiasm or interest, without needing pressure from others.

1.9. Satisfiers: to fulfill the desires, expectations, needs, or demands of a person.

1.10. Bonuses: Additional compensation given to an employee above his/her normal wage.

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3. Textbook Unit 4

3.1. characteristics: a special quality or trait that makes a person, thing, or group different from others.

3.2. Cross-cultural context: Comparing or dealing with two or more different cultures.

3.3. Diversity: the state or fact of being diverse; difference; unlikeness.

3.4. Foreign market: Foreign exchange markets are made up of banks, commercial companies, central banks.

3.5. Stereotype: Stereotypes are characteristics ascribed to groups of people involving gender, race, national origin and other factors.

3.6. Globalization: The worldwide movement toward economic, financial, trade, and communications integration.

3.7. Logical: according to or agreeing with the principles of logic.

3.8. Confrontation: a face-to-face meeting.

3.9. Multinational: Having operations, subsidiaries, or investments in more than two countries.

3.10. Universalists: a person characterized by universalism, as in knowledge, interests, or activities.

4. Textbook Unit 5

4.1. Candidate: a person who is trying to be elected.

4.2. Quit: to stop, cease, or discontinue.

4.3. Resume: to take up or go on with again after interruption; continue.

4.4. Vacancy: a gap; opening; breach.

4.5. Weakness: the state or quality of being weak; lack of strength, firmness.

4.6. Referee: a person who makes sure that players act according to the rules of a game or sport.

4.7. Recruitment: The process of finding and hiring the best-qualified candidate.

4.8. Covering letter: A cover letter is a document sent with your resume to provide additional information on your skills and experience.

4.9. Confirmation Bias: is the tendency of people to favor information that confirms their beliefs or hypotheses.

4.10. Headhunters: is hired by firms to find talent, and to locate individuals who meet specific job requirements.

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8. Textbook Unit 1

8.1. Goals: something that you are trying to do or achieve.

8.2. Motivation: a force or influence that causes someone to do something.

8.3. Profits: money that is made in a business, through investing.

8.4. Management: the act or skill of controlling and making decisions about a business, department.

8.5. Human Skills: is the ability to work effectively with other people both individually and in group to achieve specified objectives.

8.6. Directors: Person who leads, manages, or supervises an organization, program, or project.

8.7. Innovations: The process of translating an idea or invention into a good or service that creates value or for which customers will pay.

8.8. Tasks: The smallest identifiable and essential piece of a job that serves as a unit of work, and as a means of differentiating between the various components of a project.

8.9. Crisis: Critical event or point of decision which, if not handled in an appropriate and timely manner (or if not handled at all), may turn into a disaster or catastrophe.

8.10. Resources: An economic or productive factor required to accomplish an activity, or as means to undertake an enterprise and achieve desired outcome.

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10. Textbook Unit 3

10.1. Hierarchical: any system of persons or things ranked one above another.

10.2. Downsizing: occurs when a company permanently reduces its workforce. Corporate downsizing is often the result of poor economic conditions and/or the company’s need to cut jobs in.

10.3. Chain of command: The order in which authority and power in an organization is wielded and delegated from top management to every employee at every level of the organization.

10.4. Recession: A significant decline in activity across the economy, lasting longer than a few months.

10.5. Outsourcing: A practice used by different companies to reduce costs by transferring portions of work to outside suppliers rather than completing it internally.

10.6. Administrative Assistant: is a broad job category that designates an individual who provides various kinds of administrative support to people and groups in business enterprises.

10.7. Superior: Higher than another in rank, station, or authority.

10.8. Merger: The combining of two or more companies.

10.9. Delegate: a person designated to act for or represent another or others; deputy; representative, as in a political convention.

10.10. line authority: The chain of command within an organization that confers the power to order subordinates to perform a task within their job description.

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12. Textbook Unit 6

12.1. Accountability: The obligation of an individual or organization to account for its activities.

12.2. Appointed: To select or designate to fill an office or a position.

12.3. Gender: The state of being male or female.

12.4. Critical Mass: A very important or crucial stage in a company's development, where the business activity acquires self-sustaining viability.

12.5. Sexist: pertaining to, involving, or fostering sexism.

12.6. Talent pool: a group of talented or skilled or efficient people.

12.7. Ratio: the relation between two similar magnitudes with respect to the number of times the first contains the second.

12.8. Sacked: A large bag of strong coarse material for holding objects in bulk.

12.9. Prejudice: an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.

12.10. Ethic minorities: A group within a community which has different national or cultural traditions from the main population.

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