2. Speak about flexibility and its types.
Flexibility is the current buzzword today. Flexibility is understood as the ability to change or be changed easily to suit a different situation. This has a number of related meanings.One type of flexibility has existed for some time in the form of flexitime or flextime, where people can choose when they work within certain limits. Then there is the flexible working of the British Airways office in the main course unit, with some of its staff hot-desking, particularly those who are homeworking, teleworking or telecommuting and only need to come into the office occasionally. A third type of flexibility is where employees are recruited on short contracts to work on specific projects, maybe part-time. Perhaps the organisation only has a core staff, and outsources or contracts out work from outside as and when required. Some management experts say that this is the future, with self-employment as the norm, and portfolio workers who have a number of different clients.
- 1. What are visible parts of marketing? What are brand managers and sales teams responsible for?
- 2. Who takes part in distribution channels?
- 4. Some people believe that luxury fashion products should always be made in Europe. What's
- 1. What types of airlines do you know?
- 2. How do you understand the term “code-sharing”?
- 3. What forms of cooperation between companies are there?
- 4. Why do people sometimes behave badly on planes? What causes such behaviour?
- 1. What types of companies do you know?
- 2. Speak about flexibility and its types.
- 3. What is meant by "teleworking"?
- 4. What do you know about sol company? Why is it unusual?
- 1. What changes have taken place in organizations recently?
- 2. Explain the meaning of bpr.
- 3. How do you understand the term 'company culture'? What issues should be included into it?
- 4. Speak about the changes the us and uk department stores have gone through.
- 1. How does money work?
- 2.What money institutions can you mention?
- 3. Describe different kinds of securities and different kinds of markets.
- 5. How have Wal-Mart and Target stores performed lately?
- 1. What forms of advertising do you know?
- 2. Explain the meaning of 'direct marketing'. Why is it considered targeted means of advertising?
- 3. What is the difference between 'product placement' and 'product endorsement'?
- 4. What makes Nike's advertising tick?
- 5. How should you plan an advertising campaign?
- 6. Give examples of good and bad advertisements.
- 1. Give examples of cross-cultural issues.
- 2. In what way should cultural stereotypes be handled?
- 3. Is there a difference between cultures and subcultures?
- 4. Explain the meaning of the term ‘cultural awareness’. Why is it important?
- 5. What advice would you give to a business visitor coming to Italy, the uae, to Russia?