1. COMPANY STRUCTURE
In a company, there are 6 principals departments:
- Finance: deal with invoices and payment
- Information Technology
- Sales and distribution: persuades people to buy the products and transporte it in
different places
- Human Ressources/Public Relation: deals with recruiting new staff and manage the
workforce
- Production and quality control: responsible for manufacturing goods
- Purchasing: buys in products and services
ADJECTIVES TO DESCRIBE A COMPANY:
• bureaucratic: a lot of red tape
• caring: responsable, prendre soin
• progressive: evolution of employees
• hierarchical: with a define order of personnal
• market-driven: only interested in money
• conservative: hard to evoluate
• dynamic: move a lot
VOCABULARY:
• SPAM: sales Public Relation & marketing
• a spread sheet: fichier excel
• outlet: stores which sell products
• low-skill jobs: jobs peu qualifiés
• cutting-edge technology: à la pointe de la
technologie
• tight: strict
• a training: une formation
• benchmarks: repères
• to assess: to evaluate
• to restrict: to reduce
• to deal with: to manage
• to merge: fusionner
• hugely: énormément
• headed: dirigé
• Data processing: traitement de données
• Wages: salaires
• Welfare: bien-être
• Mail room: centralisation des mails
• Invoices/bills: factures
• purchasing: achat
• blue-collar workers: work in factories
• white-collar workers: work in an office
• a shopfloor: place of production
• workforce=labour=staff
• labor union: syndicats
• SME: small medium enterprise
• fit in: s’intégrer
• open-plan office: not divided offices
• a strike: la grève
• a walk-out: leave your jobs
• stoppage: refus de travailler
• go-slow: produce less
• an overtime ban: employees
work less hours
• industrial actions: various forms
of protest at work
• chairman/chairwoman: C.E.O
• C.O.O: chief operating officer
• C.F.O: chief financial officer
• shift: time of work, how long you
have to work (day shift/night shift)
• corporate ladder: you climb it, going
up the hierarchy
• to devise: élaborer
• to have a chat: bavarder
• to work out a problem: find a
solution
• to work out a strategy: develop a
strategy
• guide lines: advices you have to
follow for a project
• free/private enterprise: business
activity owned by individuals
• corporate=business
• a concern = a company/business
2. COMPANY STRUCTURE
enterprise culture: encourages people to make money
enterprise zone: part of a countru where business is encouraged by lower taxes, fewer
laws
enterprise economy: where there is an enterprise culture
