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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.