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Pass Cambridge BEC higher

高级经贸英语. Pass Cambridge BEC higher. English Department, Huzhou Teachers College. Corporate Culture. Objectives. To enable students to talk about company culture. To practise reading for specific information. Task and Plan. What ’ s your idea after reading “ A & P ”

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Pass Cambridge BEC higher

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  1. 高级经贸英语 Pass Cambridge BEC higher English Department, Huzhou Teachers College

  2. Corporate Culture

  3. Objectives • To enable students to talk about company culture. • To practise reading for specific information.

  4. Task and Plan • What’s your idea after reading “A & P” • Warming up introduction. • Reading on page 90

  5. Warming-up exercises: • What is culture? Choose the four factors below which you think are the most important in creating a culture. • Climate, institutions, ideas and beliefs, cuisine, language arts, religion, geography, social customs and traditions, historical events, ceremonies and festivals.

  6. Do you think cultures are becoming more alike? Is this a good or bad thing? For example, think about: • improved communications • Cheap foreign travel • Global business. • Trading groups ( EU, ASEAN, etc. ) • How important are the following things when doing business in your country? Are they: a) important, b) not important, or c) best avoided? • Exchanging business cards • Shaking hands • Kissing • Socializing with contacts • Small talk before meetings • Accepting interruption • Using first names • Formality (how your dress, how you talk to colleagues, what names you use, etc.) • Punctuality • Humour • Giving presents • Being direct (saying exactly what you think)

  7. What shapes company’s culture? • Mission statement. • It clearly explains a company’s goals and focus. The fact that a company has a formal mission statement suggests it is organized and keen on promoting a cohesive attitude within the staff(提倡员工凝聚力). The fact that the mission statement needs to be explicit may suggest there is some diversity of attitudes within the staff. • Organizational hierarchy • Can show how traditional a company is , whether power is centralized and the extent to which employees are empowered. • Company building • Can reflect attitudes to hierarchy and relative importance of staff, e.g. through impressive offices(豪华气派的办公室), separate floors or separate dining room for senior staff(高层管理人员专用餐厅). • Dress code • Can influence or reflect the degree of formality in a company.

  8. Reading on page 90 • Explanation of the text: • IKEA has a strong and living corporate culture. • IKEA: 由瑞典人Ingvar Kamprad1943年创立的“宜家家居公司” • Corporate culture: or company culture, refers to in general the values, ideas and tradition formed and shared by all the staff within a company. • Our culture and business idea are the cornerstone of our operation. • Cornerstone: a stone set at one of the bottom corners of a building, often put in place at a special ceremony基石 (touchstone)

  9. A feeling of belonging 归属感 • Our corporate culture is based on shared values: a simple and optimistic lifestyle, a natural way of working and being together, without imposing exaggerated respect and complicated regulations. • 我们的公司文化基于共同的价值观, 即真诚乐观的生活方式与自然和谐的共事相处关系。这里既不强求人与人之间毕恭毕敬,也没有烦琐复杂的清规戒律。 • …, as seen in the unpretentious way we associate with each other. • Unpretentious: not showing signs of wealth, size, importance, etc., or not wishing to do so.谦虚的 • 这一点可以从人与人之间坦诚自然的关系上体现出来。

  10. But we also want people who can cut across our organization, who are strong enough to question, renew and change. • Cut across: to be opposed to与…相反,向…挑战 • 但与此同时,我们也需要能力出众的人,敢于向公司挑战、质疑、更新和改变我们的文化。 • To see the person behind the professional. • The person refers to such common features as demands, personalities, character and so on. • 看到隐藏在专业技术人员身份后面普通人的一面。 • Battles are seldom won at the desk. They are won out in the real world. • 商战很少在办公桌上打赢,而是要在现实世界中一决胜负。

  11. Read the text again and describe the content of IKEA’s company values, company policies and staff profile. • Company values: simplicity 直率, humility谦卑, thrift节俭, responsibility, enthusiasm, flexibility, openness. • Company policies: • absence of status symbols ( e.g. no first-class hotels, directors’ dining rooms or flashy cars ), • recruitment of people who share the company’s values • internal promotion • listening to and encouraging new ideas and initiatives主动 • managers being involved in details.

  12. Staff profile: • People share IKEA’s basic values and are also strong enough to question and change things if necessary. • People are both internally promoted and recruited from outside. • People have a sense of responsibility and can follow things up. • Managers need to be willing to be involved in detail.

  13. Comparing with the main points of IKEA’s culture, can you show some weakness of a Chinese company? • Centralized power中央集权 • Impose exaggerated respect and complicated regulations强求人与人之间毕恭毕敬、设立种种烦琐复杂的清规戒律。 • Pretentious way staff associate with each other员工之间关系虚伪 • Inflexible way of working工作方式死板 • Neglect of customer needs • High administration costs

  14. what can be done to promote a company’s culture? • Encourage team spirit • Care for people and the environment • Be true to customers • Hold special training sessions for its staff • Offer a relaxed, open-plan office atmosphere • Attach great importance to career development of staff, and produce educational videos and brochures. • Offer in-service training sessions to keep them well informed about latest developments, upgrade their knowledge, improve their skills so that they can be better adapted to the changing nature of work. • Implement a performance-based pay scheme.

  15. Homework • Collect relevant information on culture. • Preview Unit 6b. • Thank U 4 your attendance!

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