part: corporate culture Business Benchmark helps students get ahead fast with their Business English vocabulary and skills and gives them grammar practice in business contexts. It also helps students prepare for an internationally recognised Cambridge ESOL Business English exam, using real exam papers from Cambridge ESOL. Teachers can choose from the BEC edition or the BULATS edition at the right level for their students. | Corporate culture Getting started 1 Work in small groups. Match the sentence beginnings 1 -7 with their endings a-g . 1 My company organisation has a vision a 2 We have an entrepreneurial culture ----- b 3 People in my company are highly competitive c 4 My company is pretty bureaucratic d 5 My company has a supportive culture 6 My company has a controlling culture e 7 My company is quite informal f g 2 1 3 4 5 6 8 Look at the words and phrases in bold above and match them to the following definitions. a person who gives another person help and advice over a period of time and often also coaches them in their job mentor a set of rules for what you can wear aims demands total obedience from staff extra amounts of money given to you as a reward follow the rules exactly view of how the company will be in the future involving risk-taking for example it doesn t have a dress code. I know where it s going I share its goals. the boss is autocratic and we do as we re told without question there are lots of regulations and correct procedures . We re encouraged to do things by the book. we battle each other for promotion and for bonuses. when we need them we re sent on training courses. Every employee has a mentor. we re encouraged to look for new business and take risks. 10 Corporate culture Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on to remove this watermark. Aspects of corporate culture Talking point Discuss these questions in small groups. 1 Which of the things mentioned in Exercise 1 on page 10 are typical of your company s organisation s culture 2 Which would you like to be part of your company s culture If you don t work for a company or organisation talk about one you would like to work for. Listening You will hear four students on an MBA course discussing their companies cultures. 02 2 Look at the list of aspects of company culture in Getting started. Listen to the four speakers and for each one decide which aspect of their company s culture he she mentions. .
