管理学专业英语课件宓智瑛 ISBN9787811342376 PPTchapter11.pptVIP

Empowering People Empowerment: （n.授权） it means giving individuals or groups more power to make decisions that affect them or their work. e.g. This company believes very strongly in the empowerment of managers. 这家公司坚信赋权于经理。 Freedom is the key to the empowerment. What Are Some Different Leadership Styles? High-performance Teams The high-performance teams become the trend of the future leadership forms, which aims to reduce hierarchical relationships and better the cooperation among groups. READING 1 The Lines Are Changing Framework Language Points Alliance: it is an agreement or friendship between two or more parties, made in order to advance common goals and to secure common interests, i.e. business alliance. partnership: it is an arrangement where different parties agree to cooperate to achieve their common interest. READING 2 More Power to You Framework Language Points Power Distance (PD): PD in a corporation deals with the amount of power that a boss has over a subordinate. It can be classified as high power distance and low power distance in terms of the scale. “―High power distance countries: people blindly obey superiors; centralized, tall structures (e.g., Mexico, South Korea, India) ―Low power distance countries: flatter, decentralized structures, smaller ratio of supervisor to employee (e.g., Austria, Finland, Ireland)” （Hofstede） Centralized: “drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority ”, in the text, it means the activities of planning and decision-making become concentrated within a particular group in the company. The opposite word of it is decentralized. Exercise#1 Look at the following jobs and situations. Then decide which kinds of power the different people have and put their names under the correct heading. Sometimes, a person may belong under two categories. In that case, you should discuss the item: Exercise#3 Put the words in the right category: Exercise#4 Put the word or phrase in the right cat