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PAGE 8 Passage 1 Im Michael Bush, Managing Director of Hoogle Engineering. I am pleased to welcome you here to our website and Id like to tell you a little about the company and its organization. Hoogle Engineering was set up in 1960. It was divided into several departments at that time, such as the sales department, marketing department, and production department. Lots of managers were employed to manage it all. 我是Hoogle工程公司的主管麦克· 布什。欢迎你来到我们的网站，请允许我为你介绍一下公司及其结构的情况。Hoogle工程始建于1960年，当时被分为几个部门，如销售部、营销部和生产部。我们要聘请许多管理人员来管理各个部门。 Fortunately things are different now. Sixty people are employed by Hoogle and communication between departments is considered to be one of the most important aspects of the business. The market is global so we need to make contact with customers worldwide, not just locally. 幸运的是现在的情况不一样了。Hoogle雇佣了六十个人，而部门之间的沟通被认为是业务中最重要的一个方面。市场是全球性的，所以我们需要与全球的客户密切联系,而不仅仅是本地客户。 But in the old days we were all in different departments and never spoke to each other. We had a tall structure. Traditionally we had people at the first level on the shop floor, manufacturing products according to the instructions which they were given. Then you had a supervisory level of people who supervised them every day. Then you moved up to the middle management, who were doing the tasks of getting new business, and then you had the senior management team, and then you had the board, who decided the business strategy. So there were a lot of levels in the company in the old days actually. 但在过去，我们在不同的部门,也没有互相沟通。以前，我们是直线式结构，车间里的一线员工按照指令生产产品，会有一个管理层人员每天监督他们。当你上升到要处理新业务的中层管理时,你就会有高级管理团队,你上面有董事会来决定业务策略。因此，在过去的年代，一个公司有很多层级管理。 The structure today is that we form teams within teams to place people who can manufacture a product. Each team has members that can manufacture different products. The actual teams now are self-managing, so we dont even have team leaders. Youve got the teams, and then youve got two people, only two people, who are what you think of as management. This is generall