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WorksheetsBusiness Communication & Management
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 18mins
Being late for an appointment is considered a serious ... in Chinese
business culture.
virtue
insult
subjective
sensitive
Match the words with their synonyms.
welfare
prosperity
nuance
subtlety
to attach
to attribute
to plan
to schedule
offense
insult
It took five months of ... between the two parties to have the agreement in place.
mediation
negotiations
virtues
humility
Like most other American companies with a rigid ..., workers and managers had strictly defined duties.
counterpart
composure
hierarchy
host
When receiving a business card make a ... of examining it carefully for
a few moments.
view
deal
report
show
Since there is such a strong emphasis on (a) in Chinese business
culture, (b) that you bring a (c) member of your organization to lead
the (d) on (e) .
“ (a) ” is an important concept to understand as a person’s reputation and (b) rests on this concept. Causing (c) or loss of (d) can be disastrous for (e) negotiations.
To avoid saying “no” to a person directly use ... answers such as “perhaps”, “I’m not sure”, I’ll think about it”, or “We’ll see” instead.
ambivalent
breach
senior
disastrous
Managers have to decide how best to allocate the human, physical and capital ... available to them.
resources
techniques
equipment
material
As well as organizing the work of their ..., managers have to work with people in other areas.
supervisors
subordinates
directors
employers
Match the words with their definitions.
able to persuade a person to believe or do a particular thing
persuasive
having enough skill or knowledge to do something well
competent
something that you achieved
attainment
anyone or anything that distributes something
allocator
the activity of running and controlling a business
management
Match the words with their definitions.
something that you are trying to achieve
objective
giving an impression of power and importance
authoritative
to make somebody want to do something
to inspire
to make somebody believe that something is true
to convince
high in rank or status
senior
Top managers are appointed and supervised by a company’s …
chairmen
management
advisors
board of directors
Match the words to make collocations.
resources
to allocate
information
to communicate
strategies
to develop
jobs
to perform
objectives
to set
It is generally the job of a company’s (a) to consider the (b) of the future, and to take (c) for innovation, without which any (d) can only expect a (e) life.
Reorder the following.
Managers have to measure the performance
of their staff, to see whether the objectives
set for the organization as a whole
and for each
individual member of it
are being achieved.
I ... that she study English language, because it’s necessary in her work.
propose
suggest
offer
Those changes of the voting system were ... by our government.
proposed
suggested
offered
Gerald ... to her after a year of dating.
proposed
offered
suggested
She ... him her bicycle.
proposed
suggested
offered
