1. COMPANY STRUCTURE
UNIT 03

2. Make ten common business expressions with the words below
Make ten common business expressions with the words below. Use some words more than once.
annual company exchange of
meeting stock trader private
public assets unlimited general
board debts liability personal
business directors sole limited
partner sleeping

3. Discuss these questions. Which of the words below can describe:
☺ GOOD QUALITIES of an organisation?
☹ BAD QUALITIES of an organisation?
professional impersonal cold caring
disciplined democratic decentralised
flat hierarchical welcoming
centralised slow-to-respond market-driven
bureaucratic

4. COMPANY STRUCTURE -DISCUSSSION
Which department - production, finance, accounting marketing, sales, human resources – of an organization do you think is the most interesting to work in?
What reasons can you think of for why departments get into conflict with each other?
Is it better to have one immediate boss or to work for more than one manager?
Do you prefer to work alone or in a team?
Is it more motivating to be responsible to someone for your work, or responsible for people who report to you?

5. COMPANY STRUCTURE - VOCABULARY
MATCH THE VERBS AND NOUNS
delegate
give
make
motivate
take
decision making
decisions
instructions
priority
responsibilities
staff
HOW MANY WORDS DO
YOU KNOW?
autonomous delegate
decentralization function
hierarchy or chain of command colleague line authority report to subordinates department matrix superior division
staff incompatible goals

6. COMPANY STRUCTURE - READING
One of the most important tasks for the management of any organization:
→ to determine its organizational structure
→ to change it when and where necessary
READING - Read the text in your student’s books, pp. 22 & 23, and complete the notes about the most common types of organizational structure:
HIERARCHICAL, PYRAMIDAL OR LINE STRUCTURE
FUNCTIONAL STRUCTURE OR ORGANIZATION
MATRIX STRUCTURE

7. COMPANY STRUCTURE - VOCABULARY
I Complete the COMPANY STRUCTURE HANDOUT. II Do the task in RB, p. 64.

8. COMPANY STRUCTURE – IDENTIFY THE VISUALS

9. EXPLAIN THE MATRIX STRUCTURE.

10. WHAT WORKS BEST?

11. HOW DO THESE CARTOONS COMMENT ON DIFFERENT TYPES OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE?

12. HOW DID STEVE JOBS SEE COMPANY ORGANIZATION?

13. A VERBS DESCRIBING COMPANY STRUCTURE
consist of contain include
is composed of is made up of
organized in is divided into
The company consists of five main departments.
The marketing department is made up of three units.
The sales department is divided into two sections.

14. B VERBS DESCRIBING COMPANY ORGANIZATION
to be in charge of
to be responsible for
to be accountable to
be responsible to
to assist or to be assisted by
to support or to be supported by
report to
decide on
deal with
take care of
oversee
look after
carry out
pass down (to)
The marketing department is in charge of the sales force.
The marketing department is responsible for advertising, sales promotions and market research.
The five department heads are accountable to the Managing director.