LESSON 5
TRANSFERS AND PROMOTIONS
In this lesson you will learn vocabulary related to the topic of transfers and promotions in a company.
Revision from the last lesson:
Explain the following words in English and Polish:
facilitate | subordinate | pattern | whereby | peer |
facilitate | to make possible or easier / ułatwiać |
subordinate | a person who has a less important position than you in an organization – podwładny / niższy rangą |
pattern | particular way in which something done, organized or happens / wzór |
whereby | by which way or method / za pomocą którego |
peer | person who is the same age or has the same social position or the same abilities as other people in a group – równy rangą / rówieśnik |
What elements of employee’s performance are usually assessed in an appraisal form?
job knowledge
attitude & service
quantity of work
motivation
flexibility
teamwork
overall rating
reliability
learning ability
LESSON 5
Transfers and Promotions
LEAD – IN ACTIVITY – speaking
- What are the ways of promotion in your company?
- Are employees transferred in your company? Why? Why not?
Exercise 1 – Reading
Complete the text using the words below:
Glossary:
- circumstances– a fact or event that makes a situation the way it is / okoliczności
- appointment
– when someone is officially chosen for a job, or the job itself / mianowanie - demanding
– needing a lot of time, attention or energy / wymagający - lesser
– used to describe something that is not as great in size, amount or importance as something else / pomniejszony, mniejszy - ladder
– a piece of equipment used for climbing up and down / drabina - layoff
– when someone stops employing someone, sometimes temporarily, because there is no money to pay them or because there is no work for them / wypowiedzenie / przestój - demote
/ demotion – to lower someone or something in rank or position / degradować / degradacja - lateral
– relating to the sides of an object or to sideways movement / boczny - bring about
– to cause something to happen / doprowadzić do - termination
? the act of ending something, the end of a word, something that results, to come to an end of a contract period / wygaśnięcie, wypowiedzenie (umowy) - dismissal
– when an employer officially makes someone leave their job / zwolnienie
A promotion is the of a member to another position, within the same department or elsewhere in the organization, involving duties and responsibilities of a more or nature and are recognized by a higher pay grade and salary.
A transfer is the appointment of a member to another position within the same department or elsewhere in the organization, involving duties and responsibilities of a comparable nature and having a similar pay grade and salary. In certain , the transfer may be at a pay grade or salary.
A promotion is a move up the organizational ; job rotation and transfers are moves; are downward moves; and move employees out. Layoffs, in contrast to are , sometimes temporary, required for business needs unrelated to worker behavior or performance. All of these changes shifts in status, and often in pay, of the employees involved.
A promotion is the appointment
of a member to another position, within the same department or elsewhere in the organization, involving duties and responsibilities of a more complex
or demanding
nature and are recognized by a higher pay grade and salary.
A transfer is the appointment of a member to another position within the same department or elsewhere in the organization, involving duties and responsibilities of a comparable nature and having a similar pay grade and salary. In certain circumstances, the transfer may be at a lesser
pay grade or salary
A promotion is a move up the organizational ladder; job rotation and transfers are lateral
moves; demotions
are downward moves; and layoffs
move employees out. Layoffs, in contrast to dismissals
are terminations, sometimes temporary, required for business needs unrelated to worker behavior or performance. All of these changes bring about
shifts in status, and often in pay, of the employees involved.
Exercise 2 – READING 2
Complete the text with the sentences below:
- Some groups might contain only one job classification, others several.
- At some point, someone has to make a judgment about an employee?s relative merit.
- Merit, in contrast, refers to „worth” or „excellence.”
the advantage that you get by working for a company for a long time / staż pracy
vs.
versus
/ wartość, zaleta, zasługa
Merit is more difficult to measure than seniority. In the context of promotion, it relates to relevant qualifications as well as effectiveness of past performance.
to go or move something forward, or to develop or improve something / awansować
happen / zdarzać się, mieć miejsce
to increase one’s skill, responsibility, efficiency, or status through work / rozwijać się
All managers, for instance, would have once worked as
a skilled person with experience who is in charge of and watches over a group of workers / przewodnik, brygadzista, drużynowy, przewodniczący
based on real facts and not influenced by personal beliefs or feelings / objektywność
although / acz, chociaż, aczkolwiek
influenced by or based on personal beliefs or feelings, rather than based on facts / subjektywny
Employees may find it difficult to
to make a difference / rozróżniać
the advantage that you get by working for a company for a long time / staż pracy
versus
/ wartość, zaleta, zasługa
Merit is more difficult to measure than seniority. In the context of promotion, it relates to relevant qualifications as well as effectiveness of past performance.
to go or move something forward, or to develop or improve something / awansować
happen / zdarzać się, mieć miejsce
to increase one’s skill, responsibility, efficiency, or status through work / rozwijać się
All managers, for instance, would have once worked as
a skilled person with experience who is in charge of and watches over a group of workers / przewodnik, brygadzista, drużynowy, przewodniczący
based on real facts and not influenced by personal beliefs or feelings / objektywność
although / acz, chociaż, aczkolwiek
influenced by or based on personal beliefs or feelings, rather than based on facts / subjektywny
Employees may find it difficult to
to make a difference / rozróżniać
Exercise 3 – CROSSWORD
Do the crossword using the highlighted words from the text above.
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1. | to increase one’s skill, responsibility, efficiency, or status through work |
2. | difference |
4. | influenced by or based on personal beliefs or feelings, rather than based on facts |
6. | although |
7. | happen |
8. | to go or move something forward, or to develop or improve something |
9. | the quality of being good and deserving praise |
Down
3. | based on real facts and not influenced by personal beliefs or feelings |
4. | the advantage that you get by working for a company for a long time |
5. | a skilled person with experience who is in charge of and watches over a group of workers |
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1.work up | 3. objectivity |
2.distinction | 4. seniority |
4.subjective | 5. foreman |
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7.occur | |
8.advance | |
9.merit |
EXERCISE 4
The advantages and disadvantages of seniority-based promotions have been mixed up. Separate them and put in a proper box.
- Some employees may not be able or want to do certain jobs into which a strict seniority system would them.propelpropel
to cause someone to do an activity or to be in a situation / popchnąć kogoś do czegoś, dać komuś bodzieć do czegoś - Employees get to experience many jobs on the way up the promotional ladder, they stay long enough and openings develop.provided thatprovided that
if, only if / zakładająć, że - Employers would tend to hire overskilled people at entry level, so they have the for promotion.capacitycapacity
the total amount that can be contained or produced / możliwość, zdolność (produkcyjna) - Jobs can be grouped into different ladders such that experience on one job constitutes good training for the next.
- Ambitious workers may not be willing to for higher level jobs that they want.„wait their turn”„wait their turn”
czekać na swoją kolej - Workers need not seek with supervisors (through nonproductive means) to obtain advancement. If, for example, a supervisor?s directionto gain favorto gain favor
to win somebody?s acceptance / zyskać przychylnośćthe interests or policy,violatesviolate
to break or act against something / naruszyć, pogwałcić, łamać
employees would have less fear of
activity against another person / odwet
- Employees should be able not to accept an opportunity for promotion.to optto opt
to make a choice, especially for one thing or possibility in preference to any others / optować - Cooperation between workers is generally not by competition for subjectively determined promotions.hinderedhinder
to limit the ability of someone to do something / utrudniać - Employee motivation to work as well as possible is not .reinforcedreinforce
to make something stronger / wzmocinić
Advantages | Disadvantages |
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Advantages:
- Employees get to experience many jobs on the way up the promotional ladder, provided that they stay long enough and openings develop.
- Jobs can be grouped into different ladders such that experience on one job constitutes good training for the next.
- Cooperation between workers is generally not hindered by competition for subjectively determined promotions.
- Workers need not seek to gain favor with supervisors (through nonproductive means) to obtain advancement. If, for example, a supervisor?s direction violates the interests or policy,
employees would have less fear of reprisal for not following it.
Disadvantages:
- Some employees may not be able or want to do certain jobs into which a strict seniority system would propel them.
- Employees should be able to opt not to accept an opportunity for promotion.
- Ambitious workers may not be willing to „wait their turn” for higher level jobs that they want.
- Employee motivation to work as well as possible is not reinforced.
- Employers would tend to hire overskilled people at entry level, so they have the capacity for promotion.
HR – HUMOUR
WHAT ARE THE SIGNS THAT YOUR COMPANY IS PLANNING A LAYOFF?
- Windows shutdown screen reads, „It is Now Safe to Start Looking for Work.”
- Company softball team downsized to chess team.
- Guard at front desk nervously fingers his revolver whenever you pass by.
- Company president now driving a Hyundai.