Inglese idoneità

Inglese idoneità - Management

Management is the running of an organisation or part of it. Management has two main components: an organisational skill including the ability to delegate and an entrepreneurial sense.

Organisational skill

The organisational skill involving the principles and techniques of management is taught at colleges and business schools. The entrepreneurial sense, which includes recognising and making use of opportunities, predicting market needs and trends, and achieving one’s goals, is not easily taught. However, contact with the marketplace in association with a successful entrepreneur will encourage an inherent ability to develop.

Roles and responsibilities

• Run: To be the person who makes the important decisions about what will happen in a business organisation.
• Manage: To be in charge of a business, especially one that is owned by someone else.
• Head: If you head a company or activity, you are in charge of it.
• Lead: To be the person with responsibility for a large group or team that is working on an important activity.
• Supervise: To be in charge of a group and be responsible for making sure that they do their work properly.
• Oversee: To be in charge of a group, especially when this involves planning and organizing.

Key terms

• Allocate: To decide officially that a particular amount of money or time should be used for a particular purpose.
• Achieve: To get or reach by working hard.
• Allow (permettere): To let.
• Employees: People who work for a company.
• Personnel (personale): HRD human resources department.
• Blue collars: Factory workers.
• White collars: Office workers.
• Job: Full time or steady time, part time.
• Commuter: Person who takes train, bus, etc., to arrive for work.
• Clock in/out: Work in shifts, day or night shifts.

Leadership and business roles

• Chairman: Controls and organises the board of directors.
• All directors: The board.
• An executive: A manager at quite a high level.
• Businessman: Someone who works in their own business or as a manager in an organisation.
• Entrepreneur: Someone who founds and establishes their own company.
• Entrepreneurial: In a positive way to describe the risk-taking people who do this.
• Business empire: A large company run by one person or family.
• Business leader: Successful business people of a large organisation.

Industry terms

• Magnates: Media, press, shipping, oil.
• Moguls: Movie, media, shipping.
• Tycoons: Property, software.
• Corporation: A big company or a group of companies acting together as a single organisation.
• Corporation tax: A tax that companies have to pay on their profits.
• Incorporation: This is the act of forming and giving it a separate legal existence, and is usually associated with gaining limited liability.
• Ltd: Used after the name of British business companies that have limited liability.
• PLC: British English, public limited company, a large company which has shares that the public can buy. Can be publicly traded on a stock exchange.

Employment terms

• Freelance: Working independently for different companies rather than being employed by one.
• Pro-rata: Usually written next to an annual salary where the job is part-time; it means proportionately.
• CCDL: Means you need a clean current driving license.
• EXP: You need relevant work experience.
• AGY: Job agency is advertising this job.
• PA: For whole years.
• PW: Each week.
• CV: Curriculum vitae.
• Fixed terms: Job for a limited time.
• Closing date: Date by which the employer must have received the application.

CV tips

Hobbies that are a little out of the ordinary can help you to stand out from the crowd. Any interests relevant to the job are worth mentioning. Any evidence of leadership is important to mention. Anything showing evidence of employability skills.

Skills

Usual ones to mention are languages (basic Spanish), computing (good Excel skills), and driving (full current clean driving license).