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Typical company structure
Sales
Marketing
Finance
Operations
Human
resources
(
HR
)
Sales
Deals with finding customers and selling product or services
Marketing
Focuses on promoting products or services through
advertising
and other
marketing
activities
Finance
Takes care of
money
and
financial
aspect of the business
Operations
Manages
day
to
day
activities of the company, such as production or product delivery
Human resources (HR)
Is responsible for employees, including hiring and training; another name for HR is
personnel department
Labor unions
(AmE) /
Trade unions
(BrE)
Organizations
defending the
interests
of workers
Industrial action
1.
Strike
, stoppage or walk-out (workers stop working for a time)
2.
Go-slow
(workers slow down their work)
3.
Overtime ban
(workers refuse to work more than the normal number of hours)
Work
Tasks and activities you do (job, hobbies, projects, volunteering)
Job
A place where you do your
work
to earn
money
Job
What you do to earn
money
Work
I
work
in
a bank
I leave
for
work
at 7am
I go
to
work
by car
I arrive at work on
time
I'm
at
work till
6pm
I'm not often
off
work
bc I don't get sick
Types of work and types of job
Full-time
Part-time
Full-time
job
For the
entire
of the working week (
35-40h
)
Part-time job
Less than the
full-time working week
Types of work
Permanent
Temporary
Permanent job
Doesn't finish after a
fixed period
Temporary
job
Has a
fixed
end date
Phases used to describe someone's job
satisfying
stimulating
fascinating
exciting
dull
boring
unstimulating
uninteresting
repetitive
routine
tough
hard
demanding
tiring
satisfying
zadovoljavajuc
stimulating
stimulativan
fascinating
fascinantan
exciting
uzbudjujuc
dull
dosadan
unstimulating
nestimulativan
unstimulating
nestimulativan
uninteresting
nezanimljiv
repetitive
ponajvljajuc
routine
rutinski
tough
tezak
hard
tezak
demanding
zahtevan
tiring
umarajuc
Company hierarchy UK
Board of directors
- chairman, executive directors, non-executive directors
Chief executive officer
- CEO
Executive directors - chief financial officer CFO, marketing director, HR director, IT director
Middle management
- sales, marketing, HR, customer service managers
Supervisors
- team leaders
Employees/staff
All the directors together are the
board
, they meet in a
boardroom
Company hierarchy USA
Board of directors
– chairman, executive directors, non-executive director
Chief executive officer
– CEO
Executive directors – chief financial officer CFO, marketing director, HR director, IT director
Middle management
– vice president sales, VP marketing, VP human resources, VP customer service
Supervisors
– managers
Employees
/
staff
Chairman
,
chairwoman
or president
Top position, often combined with the
CEO
Chief operating
officer
COO
Takes care of the day-to-day running
of
the company
Types of companies in the UK
Sole trader
Partnership
Private limited company Ltd
Public limited company PLC
Non-profit organizations
Sole trader
A person who runs its own
business
, consists of one or a few people, often
family
They themselves take all the risks so they have unlimited liability, if the business fails, he might have to sell his
house
,
car
etc.
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