新职业英语 质篇 unit2.ppt

Task 7 Work in groups. Work in groups. Discuss the following question and explain the reasons. Is responsibility the most important workplace ethics for the success of one’s career? Task 7 Return Text Exercises Vocabulary Further Study Home Text Heed Wake-up Calls When you “own” your job, you are prepared to do whatever needs to be done. You accept full responsibility for the work and while you are happy to share credit with your team, you accept the blame for any failures that are your responsibility. Anyone in a team can make the difference between success and failure. Return Text When an Executive has a team of people who “own” their work, the results will be incredible. He knows, without question, that he’ll get their best efforts—and that they’ll never let him down. Return Text As a young manager 20 years ago, I ran the order-processing operations in a greeting-card company. One midnight, I received a call: The automated process that created the next day’s packing slips had crashed. I had to get 1,000 packing slips ready for pulling and packing the next day, or hundreds of people in our distribution center would be idle. This was about three weeks before Christmas on a freezing night in Chicago. Return Text I drove my car and headed for work—and found the place in chaos. Even the overnight security guard was helping to prepare orders. I called a key team member, my data-entry supervisor. “I’m sorry to wake you up, but we need you in here,” I said. “We’ll never be ready for the courier at 6 a.m. without more help.” Return Text She said OK, and then hung up. But she didn’t show. That morning at 8, she came to work as usual and said, “I thought about your call. I realized that if the orders weren’t ready at 6, the packers would have enough work to keep busy, and we could send another courier later in the day. So I went back to sleep.” Obviously,