December 1998

18 December 1998

Minister

Gennadiy Khodirev

Dear Minister,

I am writing today to invite you to our 9^th International Conference on Competition, which will be held on 10 and 11 May 1999 at the Hotel Inter­continental Berlin, the venue of our last conference.

The subject of the 9^th International Conference on Competition is:

Mega-mergers –

I would be very pleased to welcome you to Berlin as a participant at our 9^th International Conference on Competition. As in previous conferences, a simultaneous translation will be in German, English and French.

Yours sincerely,

Wolf

аспирантура (канд. экз.)

Экзаменационный билет (на 2 листах) по дисциплине

английский язык

(специальность: социология управления)

Task I. Translate from English into Russian in writing using a dictionary. Your time is 45 minutes

The concepts of "management" and "managers" are often viewed upon, to a great extent, as synonymous. Management presupposes the people at the top who direct the work of others, do their work by getting other people to do theirs. Management is an organ, and or­gans can be described and defined only through their function. Management is the specific organ of the business enterprise. The enterprise can decide, act and behave only as its managers do; by itself the enterprise has no effective existence. Any business enterprise must have a management to be alive and functioning.

Ever since people began forming groups to accomplish goals they could not achieve as individuals, managing has been essential to as­sure the coordination of individual efforts. As society has come to rely increasingly on group effort and as many organized groups have become large, the task of managers has risen in importance. This is easy to understand, that it is the task of every manager to design and maintain an environment in which people working together in groups are led to perform effectively and efficiently toward the attainment of group goals.

To study managers is to study how they perform their task - and to summarizе knowledge useful for understanding managing so that this job may be done better.

Talented people flock to the organization and aren't tempted to leave. Self-regulation has a trickle-down ef­fect. No one wants to be known as a hothead when the boss is known for her calm approach. Fewer bad moods at the top mean fewer throughout the organization.

The signs of emotional self-regulation, therefore, are not hard to miss: a propensity for reflection and thoughtfulness; comfort with ambiguity and change; and integrity—an ability to say no to impulsive urges.

The third component of emotional intelligence is mo­tivation, one trait that virtually all effective leaders have. They are driven to achieve beyond expectations—their own and everyone else's. The key word here is achieve. Those with leadership potential are motivated by a deeply embedded desire to achieve for the sake of achievement.

Task II. Translate the letter from English into Russian without a dictionary. Your time is 5-7 minutes

Dear Mr. Minister:

It was a pleasure to meet you during our recent visit to Moscow. I was encouraged with the discussion and look forward to moving ahead to assist small- and medium-sized businesses in Russia.

Mr. Paul Tumminia, Ex-Im Bank Director-Russia and NIS, will be in contact with you as to our future plans on this matter.

Please do let us know if you are planning to be in the U.S.

Sincerely.

аспирантура (канд. экз.)

Экзаменационный билет (на 2 листах) по дисциплине

английский язык

(специальность: социология управления)

Task I. Translate from English into Russian in writing using a dictionary. Your time is 45 minutes

Thus the goal of managers, as managers, is fundamentally the same in business and non-business enterprises. It is also the same at every level. The corporation president, the city administrator, the hospital department head, the government first—line supervisor, and the university president or dean, all, as managers, have the same goals. The purposes of their enterprise or their department may vary, and these purposes may be more difficult to define in one situation than in another, but their basic managerial goal remains the same.

Not all groups believe that they need managing. As a matter of fact, certain critics of modern management feel that people would work together better and with more personal satisfaction if there were no managers. They prefer to refer to the ideal group operation as a "team" effort. They apparently do not realize that in the most rudimentary form of team play, individuals, playing a game, have clear group goals as well as personal ones, are assigned to positions, fol­low-play patterns, allow someone to call the plays, and follow cer­tain rules and guidelines. Indeed, a characteristic of every effec­tive group effort, designed to attain group goals at the least cost of time, money, material, or discomfort is that it adopts the basic process, principles, and techniques of management.

Social skill, the last component, is not as simple as it sounds. It's nor merely friendliness, although people with social skill are rarely mean-spirited. Rather, social skill is friendliness with a purpose: moving people in the direc­tion you desire, whether that's agreement on a new mar­keting strategy or enthusiasm about a new product.

Socially skilled people tend to have a wide circle of ac­quaintances, and they have a knack for finding common ground with people of all kinds—a knack for building rapport. That doesn't mean they socialize continually; it means they work according to the assumption the noth­ing important gets done alone. Such people have a net­work in place when the time for action comes.

Task II. Translate the letter from English into Russian without a dictionary. Your time is 5-7 minutes

INTERNATIONAL & PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPT.

Athens, 29 December 1999

Mr. Alexey PROKOFIEV

Vice Minister

Subject: EOMMEX's data base

Dear Sir,

The Hellenic Organization of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises and Handicraft (EOMMEX) is the Public Body supporting the SME's in Greece supervised by the Ministry of Development.

EOMMEX, is trying to enrich it's data base with all the existing nformation, in order to help the Greek SME's develop transnational co-operations.

Therefore, we would very much appreciate if you would send us all the available information concerning the following topics :