KOLOKWIUM II

Question 0

The ability to make a good return on capital invested in the business

Answer 0

Profitability

Question 1

Doing better than others, financially

Answer 1

Outperforming

Question 2

The amount of money a company earns in the investment of its shareholders

Answer 2

Return on equity

Question 3

The number of people needed to start and sustain a change

Answer 3

Critical mass

Question 4

Top level of management

Answer 4

Leadership ranks

Question 5

Meet or find unexpectedly or by accident

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To come across

Question 6

Required, obligatory, necessary according to the law

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Compulsory

Question 7

An official imposed number or quantity

Answer 7

Quotas

Question 8

Done by choice, without legal obligation

Answer 8

Voluntary

Question 9

Obeying laws or regulations

Answer 9

Compliance

Question 10

The ending or termination of an organization

Answer 10

Dissolution

Question 11

Trainees, people still learning their jobs

Answer 11

An apprentice

Question 12

Sm who changes their beliefs

Answer 12

A convert

Question 13

Being officially responsible for sth

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To be accountable for

Question 14

Settle a law

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To enforce a law

Question 15

A company listed on a stock market

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A public company

Question 16

Czeladnik

Answer 16

An apprentice

Question 17

Private assistant

Answer 17

PA

Question 18

Referring to the power; zgodnie z rozporządzeniem

Answer 18

By fiat

Question 19

To somehow get into; to have an opportunity to do sth

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To trickle down

Question 20

When you remember sth but without the details

Answer 20

Vague

Question 21

Jedność, rownosc, braterstwo

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Fraternity, equity, liberty

Question 22

Using other business as subcontractors to supply components or services

Answer 22

Outsourcing or contracting-out

Question 23

Employing two or more people on a part-time basis to perform a job normally available to one person working full time

Answer 23

Job sharing

Question 24

Moving some of a business’s activities (e.g. Accounting, production) to another place or country

Answer 24

Relocation or delocalization

Question 25

Removing unproductive parts of management hierarchy to make organizations more flexible and efficient

Answer 25

Delayering

Question 26

Decreasing the number of permanent employees working for an organization

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Downsizing

Question 27

A situation in which it is easy for companies to hire non-permanent staff

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Flexible labour market

Question 28

Reorganizing a company, business or system in a new way to reduce costs and improve efficiency and effectiveness

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Rationalization of restructuring

Question 29

temporary employment by an organization to do a specific project or piece of work

Answer 29

Contract work

Question 30

Temporary employment that is not regular or fixed

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Casual work

Question 31

Another way of saying downsizing, though it could also describe increasing the size of an organization, perhaps as an attempt to correct a previous downsizing

Answer 31

Rightsizing

Question 32

Fire

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Sack

Question 33

When sb or sth is no longer needed

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Make redundant

Question 34

To hire sb

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To take sb on

Question 35

To fire in masses

Answer 35

Lay off

Question 36

To give sb a position

Answer 36

Appoint

Question 37

To share (money)

Answer 37

To allot

Question 38

Very unusual or easily noticed

Answer 38

Striking

Question 39

To break sth

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To crack

Question 40

To find a reason to criticize sb

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To be faulted

Question 41

To have the opposite result from the one you intended

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To backfire

Question 42

A piece of work which is often boring

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Chore