Toxic workplace

An egomaniac

• a person whose main focus is themselves and their

  needs

  Part

• having an inflated opinion of yourself and your

  abilities

• try to impress someone by saying overly nice things

  about them

We need to be a lot more effective with our advertising if we’re going to ___ __our competitors.

(a)  

Match the correct answer to the word

`Niggle'

• differing opinions and negative feelings between

  people

• move about quickly from side to side or up and down:

• avoid (something) by devious means:

• bother someone, usually a small problem which is

  more annoying than it should be

at each other’s throats is

• an idiom

• slang

• a colloquialism

a brown-nose (v) is

• A person who has fallen face down in the mud

• A person who is kind to everyone

• A person who only gives compliments when they mean it

• A person who tries to impress someone by saying overly nice things

  about them

I don’t care if you don’t like it there.

I think it’s one of the best restaurants I’ve been to. You don’t

always need to ____ __ __ ______.

(a)  

Find the correct meaning to "redundancies"

• a pair of red underpants

• unwilling and hesitant; disinclined

• the state of being not or no longer needed or useful

• be angry and in disagreement with each other

A transparent pay structure is

• companies being open about pay provided for current and new employees

• companies very supportive of internal equity (jobs in same grade are paid similar rates)

• when employees weekly/monthly pay can be seen by everyone in the company

Click on the correct definition of `friction in the work place'

• the resistance that one surface or object encounters when moving over another:

• the quality of forming a pleasing and consistent whole

• conflict or animosity caused by a clash of wills, temperaments, or opinions:

• criticise something which someone really likes

He was practically falling over himself to tell her how much he loved her speech.

I don’t think he

realises that _____ ______ her won’t earn him the promotion he’s after.

(a)