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Men find it easy to tell others about their success. Women tend to share or pass on the credit for a success.
Humor
Men’s humor can be cruel – a man’s joke usually has a victim. Female humor is less hurtful. A woman often jokes against herself.
CAVEAT
Many men have a female style of working. Equally many women have a male approach.
As Ms Stuart says many of the current management theorems – flatter organizations, empowerment, managing by consensus – have a female style to them.
II. Find in the text the following words and expressions:
обобщение; основные различия; рабочее место; иметь тенденцию, склонность к; самозащита; впечатление; мужское поведение; ударять кулаком по столу; включать в себя; поощрять дискуссию; жертва; шутить; подход; предостережение.
III. Answer the questions.
1. Men and women do the things in the same way, don’t they?
2. Whose behaviour can include forceful gestures?
3. Whose way of speaking encourages discussion?
4. Is it easy for women to tell others about their success?
5. What are the features of men’s humor?
6. Do any women have a male style of working?
7. What are some current management theories?
8. According to Ms Stuart, do these theories have a female or male style?
IV. Grammar and sentence structure.
A. In each sentence, underline the verb and circle the subject.
1. The telephone is still most businesses’ primary point of contact with customers.
2. My particular specialization has been the promotion of young classical musicians.
3. You get plenty of chances to do new things.
4. In the long term, I’d like to progress from a local office to a job at headquarters with responsibility for various offices.
5. Her ambitions include going to work for a different organization.
6. Gabriella came to the UK in order to work.
7. In the past, a job like mine would have been much more secretarial – typing and so on.
8. Right from the beginning, my boss has gone out of his way to help and encourage me.
9. Our school-leaver trainee programme aims to teach you key skills.
10. Their website received more than 943,000 hits, or 20% more than the goal.
