Business English Vocabulary
Business English Vocabulary
Business English Vocabulary
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core activity
Hauptaktivität
making someone redundant
jemanden entlassen - when someone is losing his job
contractor
Unternehmer
professional developement
going on training, taking courses to keep up with current trends (weiterbildungen)
employable
arbeitsfähig
lifelong learning
continuing to develop our knowledge by going on courses, reading usw.
career move
Karriereschritt
set up on my own
sich selbsständig machen - becoming a freelancer
freelancer
selbstständig
temporary workers
people who only work for short periods when they are needed - temp agency
part-time workers
people who work less than the maximum number of hours each week
job sharing
where two people share a particular job, each of them working part time
letting people go
telling employees that they are no longer required
redundancy payments
money to compensate for losing their job
umemployement benefits
the money paid the people without jobs
critics say flexible job market leads to job insecurity
employers able to get rid of employes too easily
trade unions
organizations that protect the interests of workers (Gewerkschaftsbund)
parental leave
when they have time off following the birth of children
rigid labour market
market with too much job protection
stress factor
something that causes stress
stress symptom
a sign that someone is under stress
stress management
ways of dealing with stress
stress industry
used by critics who say that stress problems are overestimated and to refer to the unnecessary counselling, research done in relation to stress
stress cause 1: heavy workloads
you try to do too much and youre overworked
stress cause 2: office politics
problems with colleagues who want to advance their own position
stress cause 3: role ambiguity
responsibilities are unclear
stress cause 4: lack of management support
managers do not provide the necessary help and resources
stress cause 5: effort-reward imbalance
not getting sufficient recognition or pay
stress cause 6: home-work imbalance
not enough time for family, personal interests
workaholics
they think about very little except work
downshifting
working less than before
boundary
Grenze
talent
people with special skills + abilities
talentpool
the talent that they have available in the organization
spot + recruit the raw talent
find and employ untrained people
induction (einweihung)
the recruits need to be enducated on the key success factors
training and developement
after induction to the firm, training and developement ensure that the employee has the capabilities necessary to get the job done
performance assessment
is a seemingly simple concept, but it is difficult to carry out without tremendous effort and expense
performance improvement interventions
purpose of thesse is to provide experiences to help the person increase their capabilities
job rotation
where employeers do different jobs
