Employee voices – Businesslink UK – answers
A business speaks – answers
Check your answers and then try the vocabulary exercise
Put the following statements into the order in which they happened.
- The union took an important position in the company (they had this role from the beginning)
- Everyone worked as an individual
- The company had a high reliance on overtime (2 & 3 are more or less at the same time)
- Ian Whalley joined the business
- They conducted a staff survey
- A new business plan was drawn up
- They introduced Team Enterprise
- Everyone participated in the business
- Productivity improved
Now try the matching exercise with some if the vocabulary from the video.
1. [Match]
Match the words and phrases from the video with their meanings.
Answers for Quiz [1].
- 1. unable to turn a profit in the business (correct)
- 2. can only get the work done by having people work more than their contractual hours (correct)
- 3. the things the business has to pay for (correct)
- 4. having lots of arguments and fights in order to get things done (correct)
- 5. change the way things are done (correct)
- 6. the area dedicated to a particular activity (correct)
- 7. very important (correct)
- 8. the attitudes and beliefs shared by a group of people (correct)
- 9. open to discussion about things (correct)
- 10. a group of people (correct)
- 11. a level of confidence or positive feelings (correct)
- 12. producing more than can be sold (correct)