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site (n). staff (adj). staff (v). Vocabulary Exercises. Ex. 1. Which words can you derive from the following?. B. Pre-reading Exercises
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site (n)
1) место; местонахождение, местоположение; позиция ~ of breakdown – очаг разрушения Syn: position, situation, location
2) стройплощадка; площадь, место (для строительства)
3) а) сайт, абонентский пункт б) узел сети в) (вычислительная) установка, вычислительная система; вычислительный центр
site (v)
1) а) помещать, размещать, располагать Syn: locate, place б) помещаться, располагаться, быть расположенным, находиться Syn: lie
2) выбирать место (для строительства)
staff (n) штат служащих; служебный персонал; личный состав; кадры; штаты
to join the ~; office ~; teaching ~; military ~; public administration ~
staff (adj)
staff (v)
the office is well ~ed
Vocabulary Exercises
Ex. 1. Which words can you derive from the following?
| 1) apply 2) terminate 3) recruit 4) promote 5) exclude | 6) rotate 7) discreet 8) remove 9) extend 10) assign |
Ex. 2. Complete each sentence using a word derivationally related to the word given in brackets:
1) She kept calling him up to … some new task to him. (assignment)
2) They made an attempt to … her from the General Council. (removal)
3) We are confident that the case will … with two words “Not guilty! ” (termination)
4) The University has funds for … awards in special cases. (discretion)
5) The school receives up to 3, 300 … each year. (apply)
6) He has been … to captain. (promotion)
7) A fake call from some local phone box was not …. (exclusion)
8) Crop … will help to minimize diseases and weeds. (rotate)
9) Nationalist leaders demanded the … of democratic rights. (extend)
10) He joined the firm as a young … more than thirty years ago. (recruitment)
Ex. 3. What's the English for:
1) интеллект, сообразительность
2) происхождение, биографические данные
3) смотреть, наблюдать (за чем-либо)
4) простираться, тянуться
5) окончание, завершение, истечение срока
6) подходящий, квалифицированный
7) персонал, кадры
8) местонахождение, стройплощадка
Ex. 4. Translate the following words and word combinations:
| A 1) to apply 2) to recruit applicants 3) competent 4) intelligent 5) wages 6) to exclude from public employment 7) background | B 1) to examine 2) to select 3) assignment 4) merit 5) considerable discretion 6) personnel managers 7) dismiss |
B. Pre-reading Exercises
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Ex. 1. Guess the meaning of the following words and word combinations:
prior experience, to judge performance, performance examination, competitive wages, on-the-job training, in-house training, racial background.
C. Reading
Ex. 1. Read the text for general information to complete the following statements:
1) The text deals with the problem of... .
2) There are some steps in the personnel process. They are... .
3) The text views personnel administration as ….
PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION: STAFFING
AND TRAINING THE AGENCY
An important task in the management of any enterprise, private or public, is the recruiting, selecting, promoting, and terminating of personnel and employee training.
Recruiting
Once jobs have been created, the recruitment starts, i. e. finding people to fill those jobs.
Public administration in the United States has come a long way fsince the time of Andrew Jackson, when, in the popular view, government jobs could be performed by any individuals (or at least any men) with normal intelligence. Under Jackson and his successors, frequent rotation on office was encouraged; no particular prior training or experience was necessary for most jobs. Merit systems were designed for the most part to keep out the grossly incompetent, not to attract the highly qualified.
Gradually, the pattern changed. The government began attracting especially competent applicants. Openings were more highly publicized, recruiting visits were made to college and university campuses, and wages were made more nearly competitive with those in the private sector. Active efforts were made to attract individuals who, in earlier times, would have been excluded from public employment because of their ethnic or racial backgrounds or because they were women.
Examining and selecting
Once applications have been received, the next step in the personnel process is examination. The term examination does not refer only to a pencil-and-paper test.
Some judgments are made on the basis of an unassembled examination. That is, the application form itself may require sufficient information to permit the assignment of a score based on reported experience and education and on references.
Another possibility, especially important for jobs requiring particular skills, is performance examination. Some jobs call for an oral examination, particularly those for which communication skills are especially important.
One examination of special importance is the Professional and Administrative Career Examination (PACE). PACE is intended to select candidates for federal government careers rather than for particular jobs.
The personnel agency (e. g. Civil Service Commission) considers the list with the names of the individuals with the highest examination scores from which it chooses the new employee. Considerable discretion is allowed in making the final choice.
Following selection, the new employee is likely to serve a probationary period, often six months, during which removal is relatively easy. Personnel managers encourage supervisors to see this as an extension of the testing procedure, but few employees are, in fact, dismissed during this period.
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