人力资源管理专业英语
Unit 3 Reading and Exercise
Company Structure
1 How are companies organized?
1a Discussion
If you are still studying:
What kind of organization do you want to work for? In which department? (e.g. production, finance, accounting, marketing, sales, human resources) Do you think it will later be possible to change departments? What do you think your first position will be? Do you expect to have one immediate boss, to work for more than one superior, or to be part of a team?
1b Vocabulary
These are some basic words used in relation to company organization. Match them up with the definitions on the right.
1. autonomous A a system of authority with different levels, one above the other
2. decentralization B a specific activity in a company, e.g. production, marketing, finance
3. function C independent, able to take decisions without consulting a higher authority
4. hierarchy D people working under someone else in a hierarchy
5. line authority E dividing an organization into decision – making units that are not
centrally controlled
6. report to F the power to give instructions to people at the level below in the chain of
command
7. subordinates G to be responsible to someone and to take instructions from him or her
1c Reading
Read the text below, about different ways of organizing companies, and then label the diagrams, according to which of these they illustrate: