English for Business Studies

1. Unit 6

1.1. Consumer: A person who purchases goods and services for personal use.

1.2. Apprentice: someone who works for an employer for an agreed period of time in order to learn a new skill, often for a low wage.

1.3. Compulsory: if something is compulsory, you must do it because of a law or rule.

1.4. Equality: a situation in which men and women, people of different races, religions, etc. are all treated fairly and have the same opportunities.

1.5. Accountability: a situation in which someone is responsible for things that happen and can give a satisfactory reason for them.

1.6. Strategic: Relating to the identification of long-term or overall aims and interests and the means of achieving them:

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

1.8. Ratio: The quantitative relation between two amounts showing the number of times one value contains or is contained within the other:

1.9. Discrimination: The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.

1.10. Equity: A stock or any other security representing an ownership interest.

2. Management and Leadership

3. Marketing

4. Here is a link to explain more about what does theory mean in Unit 2

5. Here is a video about motivation in unit 1

6. Unit 4

6.1. Diversity: the fact of there being people of many different groups in society, within an organization.

6.2. Stereotype: a fixed idea that people have about what someone or something is like, especially an idea that is wrong.

6.3. Authority: the official power to make decisions for other people or to tell them what they must do.

6.4. Confrontation: a situation in which people or groups with opposing ideas or opinions disagree angrily.

6.5. Hierarchy: a system in which the people within a company or organization are organized into levels according to the authority they have

6.6. Foreign market: a financial market in which foreign currencies are bought and sold.

6.7. Logical: Characterized by or capable of clear, sound reasoning

6.8. Characteristic: Typical of a particular person, place, or thing:

6.9. Globalization: The process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.

6.10. Universalists: A person advocating loyalty to and concern for others without regard to national or other allegiances:

7. Unit 3

7.1. Split: to divide or cause to divide into two or more parts

7.2. Flatten: to reduce the number of different levels of managers and other employees in an organization

7.3. Inventory: the amount of goods a store or business has for sale at a particular time, or their value.

7.4. Reputation: the opinion that people have of someone or something, based on past behaviour or character.

7.5. Recession: a period, usually at least six months, of low economic activity, when investments lose value, businesses fail, and unemployment rises.

7.6. Takeover: the act of taking control of a company by buying enough of its shares to do this.

7.7. Merger: a situation when two or more companies, organizations, departments, etc. join together.

7.8. Redundancy: The state of being not or no longer needed or useful

7.9. Compensation: Something, typically money, awarded to someone in recognition of loss, suffering, or injury.

7.10. Outsourcing: a situation in which a company employs another organization to do some of its work, rather than using its own employees to do it.

8. Unit 2

8.1. Pessimistic: Someone who feels that bad things are more likely to happen than good things.

8.2. Incentives: something, especially money, that encourages a person or organization to do something.

8.3. Assumes: to begin to take control of something.

8.4. Discipline: the practice of making sure that people obey rules and do not cause problems.

8.5. Corporate culture: the beliefs and ideas that a company has and the way in which they affect how it does business and how its employees behave.

8.6. Self-actualization: a person's desire to use all their abilities to achieve and be everything that they possibly can. The expression is used by Maslow in his theory of human motivation.

8.7. Enterprise: a business plan or project, especially one that is difficult or that may fail or lose money.

8.8. Potential: Latent qualities or abilities that may be developed and lead to future success or usefulness

8.9. Theory: A supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained

8.10. Benefits: the money that an employer owes to an employee as a pension, which is based on the amount of time the employee has worked for the employer

9. Unit 1

9.1. Extrovert : An outgoing, socially confident person

9.2. Tenacious : Tending to keep a firm hold of something; clinging or adhering closely

9.3. Subordinate: Having less power or a lower position than someone else in a company or an organization.

9.4. Consider: to spend time thinking about a possibility or making a decision.

9.5. Motivation: enthusiasm for doing something.

9.6. Divide: to calculate the number of times one number fits into another.

9.7. Classification: the process of organizing things such as jobs or products into particular groups based on their type.

9.8. Promotion: the process or fact of giving someone a higher or more important job.

9.9. Determined: Having made a firm decision and being resolved not to change it

9.10. Function: a job or task that someone or something does.

10. Software Application for Business

11. a link that will tell you more about consumers in Unit 6

12. Here is a link will tell more about what does sterotype mean in unit 4

13. Unit 5

13.1. Curriculum vitae: a short written description of your education, qualifications, previous jobs, and sometimes also your personal interests, which you send to an employer when you are trying to get a job.

13.2. Vacancy: a job that is available in an organization and that people can apply for.

13.3. Junior: used to describe someone of a low rank, or of a lower rank in relation to others, in an organization.

13.4. ٍٍٍٍSenior: used to describe someone of a high rank, or of a higher rank in relation to others, in an organization.

13.5. Headhunters: a person who is hired by a company to find someone who has the qualifications for an important job and is willing to leave their present job

13.6. Human Resources: a person who in charge of the department that deals with the employment, training, support, records, etc.

13.7. Weaknesses: a situation in which someone or something is at a low level or is not strong or successful.

13.8. Covering letter: a letter that contains information about the thing it is sent with.

13.9. Referee: a person who knows you and who is willing to describe your character and abilities in order to support you when you are trying to get a job.

13.10. Recruiters: a company or organization that is looking for new employees