Look through the sentences and decide which of them are True (T) or False (F). A) Employees want to understand and watch how their work contributes to corporate objectives.

a) Employees want to understand and watch how their work contributes to corporate objectives.

b) The key point of being a good manager is to be hands-on while giving your people the space for their personal success.

c) The goals mustn’t be connected with larger organizational ambitions to be meaningful and effective in motivating employees.

d) Employees who understand the roles they play in company success are more likely to become detached from it.

e) Team members are likely to resent their manager if he insists on goals which are too challenging to accomplish.

f) Once a goal is set, discuss with your employee how he plans to meet it.

g) Most of the managers think about what an employee is personally trying to achieve in the context of work.

h) A manager needs to be sure personal goals of an employee contribute to the team, unit, or to the company.

i) A manager may avoid discussing with his employees what happened and what each of you think went wrong in case of a failure.

j) Managers should be willing to reflect on their own roles in the failure of their staff.

 

2) Choose the best answer to complete the following sentences.

a) Goal-setting is particularly important as a mechanism _______.

1. for giving current and year-end feedback

2. for providing ongoing and year-end tasks

b) A manager needs to balance his involvement with the employee's ownership over the process of meeting the goals because _______.

1. the failure may be reflected in his CV

2. the failure may influence the whole company

c) Achieving goals is often about_______ with things that don't go as planned.

1. making a compromise

2. forgetting about tradeoffs

d) No matter what level the employee is at, he should be able to _______.

1. operate exactly how his efforts feed into the broader company strategy

2. articulate exactly how his efforts feed into the broader market strategy

e) Ask your employee to _______ that directly contribute to the organization's overall target.

1. draft ideas

2. block out goals

f) If you a manager is overly cautious, he will miss opportunities and_______.

1. settle for top heights

2. get you into being too average among others

g) It is a good idea for a leader to help his people understand _______.

1. to whom they can rely on to achieve those goals

2. who they are dependent on to get higher salary

h) Managers don't wait for review time or the end of a project to_______.

1. check the time of their work

2. watch the progress

i) If an employee has expressed an interest in teaching a manger _______.

1. may try to find a way to realize their ambitions

2. may recommend him a new job

j) If a failure of an employee was something that was outside of his power or the goal was too ambitious, _______.

1. accept that it is disappointing but don't emphasize it

2. acknowledge the disappointment and dwell on it

 

1)

2)

Match the words from the left column with their definitions from the right.

1. tradeoff	A. scheduled event that indicates the completion of a major deliverable event of a project
2. dwell on smth	B. a small change
3. mediocrity	C. temporary and intended to be used or accepted until something permanent exists
4. milestone	D. to keep thinking or talking about something, especially something bad or unpleasant
5. goal-setting	E. continuing to exist or develop, or happening at the present moment
6. adjustment	F. an attempt of doing smth(inf.)
7. momentum	G. being average and ordinary
8. interim	H. the force that keeps an object moving or keeps an event developing after it has started
9. ongoing	I. a technique of reducing or forgoing one or more desirable outcomes in exchange for increasing or obtaining other desirable outcomes in order to maximize the total return or effectiveness under given circumstances
10. stab	J. the process of deciding what you want to achieve or what you want someone else to achieve over a particular period

 

 

⇐ Предыдущая234567891011Следующая ⇒

Поделиться: