Organisation – English Online

InStep – your emails

Daniel Fuchs — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 23:15:20 +0000

I’ve taken the pains of typing all your emails into a text file in order to add corrections and comments. On the whole, these are good achievements, although some of you were not very talkative.

Whoever wrote ‘The majority of our staff have expressed’ — I salute you!

InStep relocation – your emails.

Capitalisation in proper names and titles

Job titles are usually capitalised (written with Big Initial Letters) when you’re referring to someone specific:

We talked to InStep’s Human Resources Manager.

but not when talking about a job in general:

When I grow up, I want to be a human resources manager.

Some words like and, or and prepositions are never capitalised:

the Head of Production, the Research and Development Manager

Your dream organisation

Daniel Fuchs — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 10:22:39 +0000

Your homework for Monday, 2 November:

Describe a real or fictional organiosation you’d like to work with in the future. Draw an organigram, label the divisions, branches or departments you’ve included and prepare a short presentation. You will have to describe your organisation to me in class so I can draw a copy of your organigram on the board.

Please do also think about your organisation’s legal form and what your own position within the organisation would be.

If you are planning to become a sole trader, be prepared to talk about your field of business.

Do we need hierarchies?

Daniel Fuchs — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 09:00:52 +0000

Whether to organise a company strictly hierarchically or more equitable is a matter of much debate and is different between countries and cultures. In this 2010 interview, Steve Jobs, late CEO of Apple, claims that his company is built on teamwork and equality.

Transcript of the interview

And here are three statements from businesspeople on the question ‘Hierarchy or flat structure’:

(Video: Watch this video on the post page)

Transcript of the video.

Legal forms of enterprises

Daniel Fuchs — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 10:07:35 +0000

Here is a handout on legal forms of enterprises in different countries and an interview with a business consultant on the differences between a sole trader and a limited company.

Organigrams

Daniel Fuchs — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 10:00:33 +0000

This paper shows an organigram of a company.

Homework for Monday, 26 October

Enter the names of the missing departments according to what the text says about the relationships within the company.