• -The role of managers
• -Management vs. leadership
• -Entrepreneurship
• -Defining management
• -Characteristics of managers and qualities of leaders
• -History of management theory
• -Management Style
• -Modern management Theory

• -Speak about entrepreneurship from a prepared set of notes, phrases and conversational functions to manage/ participate in/ lead meetings effectively.
• -Job titles, words from general English with a special meaning in management, prefixes and suffixes.
• -Read definitions of management for gist, to complete with collocating words, to prepare an oral response, the messages of key management theorists across history for understanding of stance, modern management theory for understanding of structure.
• -Listen to prepare for a lecture about the pitfalls for new managers, to predict lecture content from the introduction, for understanding of structure, to choose an appropriate form of notes.

• -Leadership styles
• -Choosing a personal managerial style
• -Groups and teams
• -Diversity
• -Team Building
• -Dealing with superiors
• -Conflict Management
• -Negotiating Styles
• -Project Management

• -Discuss possible solutions to conflict.
• -Synonyms, nouns from verbs, adjectives to describe leadership styles, types of conflict, unscramble keywords related to project management, common ‘direction’ verbs in writing rubrics.
• -Read about different negotiation styles to extract key information and represent it in a continuum, to understand dependent clauses with passive structures.
• -Paraphrasing a diagram in words, expanding notes into complex sentences, write a weekly diary/to do lists prioritising/setting objectives/acting or delegating to help with time management, writing up writing plans.

• -Motivation and rewards
• -Encouraging initiative and innovation
• -Learning and development
• -Hard and Soft Human Resources Management
• -Understanding risk inclination
• -The generation gap
• -Managing remote employees
• -The place of social media at work

• -Make effective contributions and refer to other people’s ideas in a seminar-style speaking activity.
• -Fixed phrases from management English and academic English, vocabulary related to motivation, word partnerships and colligation with ‘need’.
• -Listen to a discussion of development strategy and strategy evaluation, a training session to follow key points, for top-down processing of key phrases, to a technical talk for gist, to follow the main points, to recognise digressions and how to handle them while note-taking.
• -Read a summary of a training programme, an employee development programme web page to scan for important information, excerpts from a book on risk inclination, generation gaps, remote employees, and social media to recognise the writer’s stance.

• -Organisational culture
• -Definitions and characteristics
• -Developing organisational culture
• -Cultural variance
• -Power politics

How political are you?

• -Forces for change and innovation
• -Change management and communication
• -Dealing with resistance to change

• -Debate the role of uniforms, logos, awards, etc. in the creation of an organisational culture, evaluate the political issues present in own working environment, use a flow chart to talk about the process of change management.
• -Abstract nouns and adjectives to define organisational culture and cultural variance, word partnerships for company responses to change and change communication, dictionary: headwords, definitions, pronunciation and grammatical indicators.
• -Read to find specific information using research questions, for understanding of structure using topic sentences, definitions of power for inference of new words and to take short notes.
• -Listen to an expert talk about the forces of change for information transfer.
• -Organise writing and paragraphing using topic sentences.

• -The external environment
• -The industry environment
• -Standards
• -Ethical issues
• -Looking after people
• -Having a legal awareness

• -Brainstorm how to meet different types of external pressures, express opinions and justify personal handling of ethical issues at the workplace.
• -Types of pressure that impact business, word stress from noun to adjective, word partnerships for minimum standards of corporate behaviour.
• -Read for gist, inference of conceptual keywords, and to prepare an oral response about the impact of these concepts on industry environment.
• -Listen to an expert talking about various legal matters to identify topic and context, and to make notes in the form of infographics.

• -Evolution of industrial relations
• -Issues in industrial relations
• -Typical procedures: industrial action etc.
• -Salary Administration

“Oh my God! I can’t fire anyone!”

• -Neutral and marked words, fixed expressions from industrial relations, the language of negotiating (persuading, bargaining, making offers and counters, accepting and turning down offers diplomatically).
• -Read a case study of an industrial relations issue to follow the main points, to recognise the writer’s stance, to infer implicit ideas and level of confidence/ tentativeness, read a passage about apprehensiveness about firing to prepare a summary (a set of tips).
• -Listen to a podcast about the secrets of bargaining for gist and specific information.
• -Write a situation-problem-solution-evaluation report, compile a reference list, write a formal e-mail informing employees of the outcome of a wage negotiation.

• -Planning, Sequencing and timing: a Gantt Chart
• -Total Quality Management
• -Corporate strategy
• -Portfolio analysis
• -Crisis and contingency planning
• -International markets and situation analysis
• -Competition

• -Present the steps in a management by objective flowchart, tell a fable representing the steps of strategic management.
• -Word sets: synonyms, antonyms, etc., collocates with ‘plan’, descriptors for tables/ charts/ graphs, the language of trends.
• -Read to prepare a Gantt chart showing sequencing and timing, read a corporate structure for understanding of structure and typical sub-titles, read a Boston matrix for gist.
• -Listen to a technical talk to understand signposting and to lift words and phrases with this function, to work on building a personal shorthand for note-taking.
• -Prepare oral and written responses while playing the ‘suddenly’ story-telling game with an international marketing situation, incorporate elements of market analysis.

• -The time value of money
• -Asset, bond and share valuation
• -Project appraisal

• -Play the online game Fiscal Ship, expressing opinions and justifying decisions while choosing policies to meet company goals and simultaneously restraining debt, pitch an investment opportunity highlighting its potential returns, risks, and valuation methods.
• -Terms related to financial control indicators, synonyms, replacement subjects, etc. for sentence-level paraphrasing.
• -Read to locate key information in complex sentences.
• -More practice writing complex sentences, report findings from other sources, avoiding plagiarism.

• -Organisational structure and analysis
• -Production methods
• -Operations management
• -The control process
• -Research and development

• -Present arguments and evidence and prepare for counterarguments on the importance of R&D for driving innovation and growth.
• -Management abbreviations, word partnerships for operations, stress patterns in multi-syllable words, prefixes.
• -Read a control process flow chart for understanding of main points, inference of new words, to identify the correct summaries from among distractors of aspects of R&D.
• -Listen to predict the content of a TED Talk about operations management, to make notes.
• -Write a step-by-step guide on how to implement a specific production method in a chosen industry.

• -Information and data handling
• -Information systems used to aid management

• -Phrases for data handling, data crossword, verbs used to introduce ideas from other sources, adjectives to modify quantity.
• -Linking words and phrases conveying contrast.
• -Read for gist, information flow, and to understand how ideas in a text are linked.
• -Listen to a set of clues for specific words and numbers and to identify the corresponding piece of information from a given dataset, to a discussion of the benefits and challenges of using a specific information system in an organisation to follow the main points and to prepare a personalised oral response.
• -Incorporating quotations, writing effective introductions and conclusions, write an interview with a successful CEO, asking a question about how they manage data, deciding whether to paraphrase or use direct quotation.

• -Marketing orientation and market share
• -Brand strategy
• -The marketing process: from analysis to marketing mix formulation

• -Improvise a description of how to incorporate one of the 4 Ps in a product/ service, build a persuasive argument.
• -Word and partnerships related to the marketing mix and the 4 Ps, stress patterns in noun phrases and compounds, words and phrases used to link ideas, fixed expressions from academic English.
• -Listen to a partner’s description of a product/ service and suggest a P for them to begin talking about, listen to a lecture about marketing to build up a full set of notes.
• -Read mission statements from various companies to insert missing information and guess the company.
• -Write a marketing plan diary entry reflecting on the process of creating a marketing plan, the challenges faced, and the strategies found most effective.

• -Working across frontiers
• -Globalisation, global issues, and the future
• -International organisations
• -International marketing

• -Share opinions and build on what others have said about factors to consider ahead of expansion, participate in a controversial press conference on a topic such as the impact of globalisation on diversity etc.
• -Association word clouds on the concept of ‘globalisation’.
• -Read about 16 different cultural values for gist, identification of appropriate contexts, and personalised oral response.
• -Listen to a Ted Talk on regional and global issues to take notes on specifically assigned points, to a motivational speaker about the role of public speaking in a leader’s career for specific tips and phrases.
• -Create a marketing campaign in any combination of media taking a fictional product/ service into a new region of the world.